[wplug] Book published using Open Source software

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 08:54 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> The tools for writing in Docbook have matured in the last couple years, 
> although they're still geared toward people happy with writing the 
> markup, and not using WYSIWYG.

I'm a lazy SOB so I like to use a WYSIWYM (LyX for LaTeX typeset) and/or
a WYSIWYG (Scribus DTP) GUI.

In any case, you can use Open/StarWriter to write multi-hundred page
manuals.  It has a very strictly defined documentation language, has
since StarOffice 3.0, and got even better starting with OpenOffice 1.0
(StarOffice 6.0).

BTW, in this (still incomplete) blog article, I give a history of
StarOffice:  
  http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2007/01/office-suites-opendocument-and-openxml.html  

I'm going to shut-up now, I've commented more than enough.


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