Re: Published with lyx
Richard Brown wrote: > I am proudly holding my just-published 200 page book -an Italian manual on > how to set up and run humanist funerals- which was typeset entirely in Lyx > and includes text, tables, photos, external files and even music scores. > Thanks to Lyx it looks very professional indeed. I am one happy bear. you might be interested to add it here http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducedPublications pavel
Re: Published with lyx
On Saturday 29 May 2010 18:42:57 Tim Wescott wrote: > On 05/29/2010 05:40 AM, Richard Brown wrote: > > Success! > > > > I am proudly holding my just-published 200 page book -an Italian > > manual on how to set up and run humanist funerals- which was typeset > > entirely in Lyx and includes text, tables, photos, external files and > > even music scores. Thanks to Lyx it looks very professional indeed. I > > am one happy bear. > > > > But I have to say that I'd never have got there without the help and > > active support which I have received over the last year from this > > list, every time I ran into something I couldn't do- which was often! > > > > > > So- a very big and heartfelt THANKS to everyone! You are the tops. > > Congratulations! And good choice of authoring tools! > > My first book-length work was my master's thesis, which I did on Emacs > in LaTeX, because my thesis advisor insisted -- thank you Dr. Enge, for > turning me on to LaTeX! My second was a manual for internal use at the > company I was working at, describing the inner workings of a fairly > complex system. It was done in Microsoft Word, and really bogged down > as it got big splitting it into chapters helped, but it was still way > clunky. My third one was a book > (http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html) authored in OpenOffice > -- OpenOffice is nice for memos, but like Microsoft Office it really > bogs down after 100 pages or so, and slows down by at least n^2 per > size. I had floated the notion of doing it in LaTeX, but > Elsevier/Newnes couldn't conceive of the idea of a book in anything but > Microsoft (this was in spite of being a division of Elsevier -- > apparently Newnes is, or was, fairly independent of the "academic > Elsevier") -- I cheated and did it in OOo, exported to Microsoft, which > generated some problems in production. > > My second book will be presented to a publisher as a LaTeX manuscript > and they can damn well take it or leave it, even if I have to hunt down > a production house for them myself. I do _not_ want to ever go back to > doing it on a 'normal' office word processor! Hi Richard, I join with Tim congratulating you on completing and publishing a book, and doing it in LyX, which I consider the best book-writing software in the world. I've been off the LyX-Users list for a month and didn't even know it, but I'm back now. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Re: Published with lyx
On 05/29/2010 05:40 AM, Richard Brown wrote: Success! I am proudly holding my just-published 200 page book -an Italian manual on how to set up and run humanist funerals- which was typeset entirely in Lyx and includes text, tables, photos, external files and even music scores. Thanks to Lyx it looks very professional indeed. I am one happy bear. But I have to say that I'd never have got there without the help and active support which I have received over the last year from this list, every time I ran into something I couldn't do- which was often! So- a very big and heartfelt THANKS to everyone! You are the tops. Congratulations! And good choice of authoring tools! My first book-length work was my master's thesis, which I did on Emacs in LaTeX, because my thesis advisor insisted -- thank you Dr. Enge, for turning me on to LaTeX! My second was a manual for internal use at the company I was working at, describing the inner workings of a fairly complex system. It was done in Microsoft Word, and really bogged down as it got big splitting it into chapters helped, but it was still way clunky. My third one was a book (http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html) authored in OpenOffice -- OpenOffice is nice for memos, but like Microsoft Office it really bogs down after 100 pages or so, and slows down by at least n^2 per size. I had floated the notion of doing it in LaTeX, but Elsevier/Newnes couldn't conceive of the idea of a book in anything but Microsoft (this was in spite of being a division of Elsevier -- apparently Newnes is, or was, fairly independent of the "academic Elsevier") -- I cheated and did it in OOo, exported to Microsoft, which generated some problems in production. My second book will be presented to a publisher as a LaTeX manuscript and they can damn well take it or leave it, even if I have to hunt down a production house for them myself. I do _not_ want to ever go back to doing it on a 'normal' office word processor! -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com
Published with lyx
Success! I am proudly holding my just-published 200 page book -an Italian manual on how to set up and run humanist funerals- which was typeset entirely in Lyx and includes text, tables, photos, external files and even music scores. Thanks to Lyx it looks very professional indeed. I am one happy bear. But I have to say that I'd never have got there without the help and active support which I have received over the last year from this list, every time I ran into something I couldn't do- which was often! So- a very big and heartfelt THANKS to everyone! You are the tops. Richard
