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I wanted to use a workflow like this years ago working with Apress. Possibly (hopefully) things are better now, but at least at the time, all their tooling expe
by mikepurvis 7y ago
I wanted to use a workflow like this years ago working with Apress. Possibly (hopefully) things are better now, but at least at the time, all their tooling expected Word docs as the input, and you had to use a very specific stylesheet (including goofy stuff like magic text strings to insert images).
There were also some manual transformation steps occurring on their end, because there was a cutover point where the Word doc was no longer accepted and you had to just quote page and line numbers to get further changes made.
- ghaff 7y agoWord docs, Sharepoint. (Though I didn't have that experience with images.)
- munificent 7y ago> There were also some manual transformation steps occurring on their end, because there was a cutover point where the Word doc was no longer accepted This was probably the point at which the text had been moved into InDesign for typesetting by the designer.
- wyldfire 7y agoAre there publishers who are more accommodating of inputs like LaTeX/pandoc/markdown/etc? It'd be great to know that kind of thing when considering publishers.
- geerlingguy 7y agoYou should check out LeanPub. They support a variety of formats, and do some really nice things if you want to self-publish.
- bokumo 7y agoI think No Starch Press accepts LaTeX markup. There is a nostarch package on CTAN. https://ctan.org/pkg/nostarch?lang=en https://ctan.org/pkg/nostarch?lang=en
- cosmodisk 7y agoThe content of their books is often OK, however low-res images,pixelated tables and some random font and its size makes those books look funny..