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Recommend as simple as possible for the text, and start with pencil & paper for the diagrams. Then move no-longer-draft text into latex (for maths and formattin
by drpixie 6y ago
Recommend as simple as possible for the text, and start with pencil & paper for the diagrams. Then move no-longer-draft text into latex (for maths and formatting) and something simplish (maybe inkscape) for the diagrams.
You DON'T want to spend writing time doing any formatting and playing with computers ... that's an easy was to burn lots of time. Get the ideas (words & pics) clear and complete, then the formatting is quick.
And whatever you use, it should do everything with styles, not manually selecting bold-for-this and sans-for-that - that's just a waste of time (so avoid MS).
- wsh 6y agoI agree with the advice for authors not to spend time on formatting—leave that to the editor, book designer, and compositor—but that’s not necessarily a reason to avoid Microsoft Word, which despite its flaws, has extensive facilities for character and paragraph styles, including a Limit formatting to a selection of styles option that prevents direct formatting. Indeed, many publishers are set up to accept manuscripts in Word documents as the input to their editorial and production workflows, which generally use other software for the actual typesetting and e-book production.