[wplug] Book published using Open Source software

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Fri Aug 17 20:16:25 EDT 2007


Bill Moran wrote:
> and I know from first hand experience that all the publishing work was
> done exclusively with Open Source software.  He used an Ubuntu system
> with OpenOffice for the internal layout, and Scribus for the cover
> layout.
> 
> Because real people can do real work with OSS.

Just as another note in this thread:  I know at least one author who has 
published a couple books, all written in Docbook (http://www.docbook.org/).


-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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