On 13 Feb 2012, Uwe Stöhr wrote: [snip] >The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the >beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final >formatting can be changed at every time easily for the whole document. >(When you publish a book you have anyway to fulfill the publisher's >guidelines. In most cases the publisher will do the final layout for >you, if you like this or not.) >
When writing books that I am going to print/publish myself my policy is to use a two-stage process. I write first in a text editor (vim) which gives me maximum freedom to concentrate on the content my text without bothering about how it will look. I then import it into LyX to prepare it for printing. I still make content changes at this stage but the basic material already exists. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell
