O'Reilly book production (was Re: Wine applicability)

[A. Keyton Weissinger]

I've written two books for O'Reilly, one of which has two editions out. The
Word template works very well for me. Now FrameMaker, their production
application sucks, but fortunately you rarely have to deal with that.

Keyton

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> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Aahz Maruch
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:42 PM
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> Subject: O'Reilly book production (was Re: Wine applicability)
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> In article <a0i8qg014dn at enews2.newsguy.com>,
> Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
> >"Cameron Laird" <claird at starbase.neosoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:200112281642.KAA24897 at starbase.neosoft.com...
> >>Alex:
> >>>
> >>>that's my primary need -- Word with O'Reilly customized macros &c,
> >>>as that's what I'm required to use for one of the books.  So, I
> >>
> >> O'REILLY MAKES YOU USE WORD MACROS?!??!!?
> >> I've got to talk with those boys.  That strikes me as an atrocity.
> >
> >"makes" is probably an overbid.  The Cookbook I'm doing in XML with a
> >custom DTD, and that's just fine - I get to use VIM:-).  But for the
> >Nutshell, that wasn't an option.
>
> Really?  May you explain why?  (I'm still hoping to do a book with
> O'Reilly and I *really* don't want to use Word.)
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