I too will be interested in seeing the book. Nothing wrong with Lout -- and you can choose what suits you best, of course -- but just a couple of comments on the alternative.
On Dec 19, 5:21 pm, Mark Summerfield <l...@qtrac.plus.com> wrote: : > - I can't draw but I can tell lout to draw for me and that works well > for my simple needs There are very competent and widely used packages to draw in LaTeX. Two are PSTricks and TikZ (you can google them each). > - embedding graphics (e.g., screenshots) is easy (just convert to EPS) Similarly for LaTeX. > - lout lets me specify Type1 fonts so I can easily use my own custom > Venus font for code & it is easy to embed it which makes publication > easier Current distributions of LaTeX contain XeLaTeX which allows you to use any T1 font that you have (to use it in mathematical text you need to do more, but I don't expect that you have a lot of mathematical text in your book). > - lots of books that use LaTeX have a certain sameness & I don't like > the computer modern fonts (IMO -- no offence intended) There are many alternative document styles and fonts available. > - after more than a decade of using lout I can pretty well get it to > do anything & everything I want (but I don't claim to be an expert > user) Fair enough. Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
