[Python-authors] Book writing software

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Apr 20 19:21:26 CEST 2013


On Sat, Apr 20, 2013, Mike Driscoll wrote:
> 
> I keep thinking I need to write a Python book and I think I'm finally ready
> to start. Can anyone tell me what software they recommend for writing the
> book in? I hate MS Word for writing long documents with markup, but I don't
> think Notepad++ really makes sense either.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

vim and reStructuredText, will likely need some coding work to get into
an output format if you got through a publishing house.
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