On Sep 10, 2007, at 1:08 AM, Thomas Zastrow wrote:
> >> Since every writer works in Word or its equivalent, and no print >> shop can USE an original word document for printing, it's very >> >surprising to me that there seems to be NO program for converting >> the word processing documents to "print ready" documents for >> >commercial printers. > > > > In the scientific community, where footnotes etc. are very > important, LaTeX / TeX is still the tool of choice. > > >> How do the iUniverse folks (and all the other "print on demand" >> publishers) do this? Their most favored MS submission type seems >> >to be the Word .doc type of file. > > > > Latex works perfect on Mac ;-) > > Best, > > Tom > I don't know about iUniverse, but I produced 4 textbooks with LaTeX with LuLu.com and they came out perfect. I had many footnotes and margin notes. The PDFs generated also have hyperlinked bookmarks and table of contents and a nice regular font as well as colored text. here are the LaTeX sources as well as the final PDFs http://benjamin-newton.net/texts/red here are the books on Lulu http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=953626 the downloads are free
