[BangPypers] [OT] Tools for writing books and publishing as pdfs

[Jaideep Dhok]

You can take a look at LyX - http://www.lyx.org/. It's a document
processor that uses LaTeX in the background. Makes using LaTeX bit
easier.

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Jaideep

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Saju Pillai <saju.pillai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jins Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is an off-topic.
>>
>> Would somebody please pass some suggestions on how we can write some
>> e-book,
>> technical in nature. I'm planning to write one book on telecom network
>> domain . My main motive is to learn some more solid things while writing
>> this book. So i was just thinking there is any good way by which we write
>> this and publish as pdfs in the internet. I was curious how our free
>> python
>> tutorials being written, like 'A byte of python' , ThinkCSPY etc.
>>
>
> Recommend LaTex.
>
> I tried using DocBook, but all that XML love caused a minor haemorrhage,
> YMMV ofcourse.
>
> -srp
>
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Jaideep Dhok