OK, so I've almost finished writing an entire book with groff.
Nothing fancy involved: no equations or pictures, but LOTS of
footnotes and refer tags. I'm 2 weeks away from submitting the
manuscript, and have just let the editor know that I can send him
pdfs, and gnu troff source files -- or, if t
> "GNU troff?? What is that? These days the publishers really want either
> MSWord or TEX files. We can try the HTML result, but I predict lots of
> issues in the typesetting! You'll be correcting proofs for weeks.
Maybe try troffcvt
http://www.snake.net/software/troffcvt/
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:58:50AM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > "GNU troff?? What is that? These days the publishers really want either
> > MSWord or TEX files. We can try the HTML result, but I predict lots of
> > issues in the typesetting! You'll be correcting proofs for weeks.
>
> Maybe try
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> "GNU troff?? What is that? These days the publishers really want either
>> MSWord or TEX files. We can try the HTML result, but I predict lots of
>> issues in the typesetting! You'll be correcting proofs for weeks.
>
> Maybe try troffcvt
>
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:36:13AM -0500, Robert Goulding wrote:
> Subject: [Groff] Creating Word/rtf output
>
> OK, so I've almost finished writing an entire book with groff.
> Nothing fancy involved: no equations or pictures, but LOTS of
> footnotes and refer tags. I'm 2 weeks away from submitt
On 03-Mar-09 17:48:02, Robert Goulding wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jeremy C. Reed
> wrote:
>>> "GNU troff?? What is that? These days the publishers really want
>>> either MSWord or TEX files. We can try the HTML result, but I
>>> predict lots of issues in the typesetting! You'll be c
> OK, so I've almost finished writing an entire book with groff.
> [...]
What exactly does the editor need? Either MSWord or TeX? Is he or
she going to add notes to the source files directly?
> Nothing fancy involved: no equations or pictures, but LOTS of
> footnotes and refer tags.
Can you se
On Monday 02 March 2009 13:33:54 Scott Moore wrote:
> I am wondering if it is possible to create a pdf bookmark which does
> not contain a section numbered entry ?
Yes. The macro call
.pdfhref O n anything
(or its `pdfbookmark' equivalent), will will label the bookmark with
*exactly* whateve
I've set several books in PDF from PostScript and straight PostScript.
Any commercial printer worth having should be able to print from PS
files. My only problem is not being able to embed PS or Type1 fonts
into the PDF files. Haven't figured out the magic to do that...
But if the printer has s
I think the majority of printers/publishers now want electronic files
for direct-to-plate printing. This cuts out the messy process of camera
work and intermediate lay-up. All you should need is page crop size,
margins, point size, fonts, etc.
Some may be fussy about details for toc and index.
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009, Ted Harding wrote:
> Some publishers, indeed, will happily work with UNIX troff or
> GNU groff. Not only O'Reilly (that goes without saying), but
> also Harper-Collins, with whom I have done some work on their
> multilingual dictionaries. They had a program to convert from
> X
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