Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-09 Thread G. Milde
On 9.03.05, Helge Hafting wrote: > Stefano Franchi wrote: > >On Mar 8, 2005, at 4:20 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: > > Now, some publishers do provide latex classes, in those cases it is > only a question of getting lyx support. The simplest cases merely > involves getting a few "\usepackages" into th

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Stefano Franchi wrote: On Mar 8, 2005, at 4:20 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: There is few publishers, if any at all, who will provide you with a lyx class. But it doesn't have to be the publisher, it is something any latex/lyx person could do. The publisher should really offer a discount (i.e. more p

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-08 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Mar 8, 2005, at 4:20 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: There is few publishers, if any at all, who will provide you with a lyx class. But it doesn't have to be the publisher, it is something any latex/lyx person could do. The publisher should really offer a discount (i.e. more pay) for a camera-ready

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Stefano Franchi wrote: On Mar 4, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Well, the right publisher is the publisher that has a good reputation in your subject. Couldn't agree more. And in my field (philosophy, and especially history of philosophy) TeX is conspicuously absent. Which is bad,

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-05 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Mar 4, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: William F. Adams wrote: For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing houses and/or

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
William F. Adams wrote: > > For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: > > they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. > > houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing > > houses and/or imprints will want a camera-ready manuscr

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-04 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:47 AM, William F. Adams wrote: They did do one book on TeX, Norman Walsh's _Making TeX work_ (and may've been put out that they didn't get some TeX books they wanted early on) but have since been said to've likened it to ``wombat sex'' for its obscurity. You can find MTW on

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: One of publishing's great mysteries -- to me, at least -- is why O'Reilly & Associates insist that their authors submit manuscripts in Word format. I know several authors who work strictly in linux and despise having to use OO.o then translate t

Re: possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, William F. Adams wrote: On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses will retype everything from paper...). Well, ... Spr

possible strategies for dealing w/ publishers (was Re: selling lyx part 2)

2005-03-03 Thread William F. Adams
On Mar 3, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing houses and/or imprints will want a camer