[wplug] Book published using Open Source software

[Neal Sofge]

> The biggest and most grossly proliferated falsehood is that books are
> written in MS Word (or any word processor, WP) at publication houses.
> They never have been.

That's generally (99%) true, but boy, I wish it were absolutely  
(100%) true.  I used to do DTP consulting in Los Angeles and there  
was one joint that insisted on using Word for "book block" layout  
because it let them throw manuscripts back and forth between  
editorial and author up to the last minute.  Biggest PostScript  
headaches in the universe.


--
Neal Sofge, Web Technology Analyst
RAND Corporation <http://www.rand.org/>



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