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I am the second poster and in an attempt to show that this list will have
value, I actually have something to say <wink>.
We are starting a new POV Ray book and it is shaping up to be the end all,
be all, best ever book on POV Ray. It will be in (ta da) full color, and (I
hope) fully reviewed and sanctioned by the POV Ray team. The book will be
between 700 and 1000 pages long, and will not compete with but rather will
enchance the documentation. A PDF version of it will be available as well.
If you are interested in earning some royalty off all the fun you have had
with this program, please email me at mit### [at] dnai com. I will sign you up
to our discussion list, send our outline and help you determine what areas
you would like to contribute to.
Sincerely
Mitch Waite
Publisher of the Very First POV Ray book Ray Tracing Creations
Mitch Waite Group
Agent, Author, Publisher, Packager
From How to Wow
www.mitchwaite.com
mit### [at] mitchwaitecom
415 381 0188
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Mitchell Waite wrote:
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> I am the second poster and in an attempt to show that this list will have
> value, I actually have something to say <wink>.
>
> We are starting a new POV Ray book and it is shaping up to be the end all,
> be all, best ever book on POV Ray. It will be in (ta da) full color, and (I
> hope) fully reviewed and sanctioned by the POV Ray team. The book will be
> between 700 and 1000 pages long, and will not compete with but rather will
> enchance the documentation. A PDF version of it will be available as well.
700-1000 pages, that sounds like quite a lot...
Does this mean the POV-Team's own book project is laying on ice for now?
> If you are interested in earning some royalty off all the fun you have had
> with this program, please email me at mit### [at] dnaicom. I will sign you up
> to our discussion list, send our outline and help you determine what areas
> you would like to contribute to.
I already mailed you and did not get an answer. Should i be worried?
BTW, i think it wouln't be wrong to post that outline here in public.
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IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/
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I would like to sugest to write the book in latex. There is at last one
application which converts tex inputs directly to pdf and it is free.
Regards, Alberto.
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:11:24 -0500, Alberto Mendoza wrote:
> I would like to sugest to write the book in latex. There is at last one
> application which converts tex inputs directly to pdf and it is free.
I think DocBook would probably be a better choice, since it's designed
for writing technical books.
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> > I would like to sugest to write the book in latex. There is at last one
> > application which converts tex inputs directly to pdf and it is free.
>
> I think DocBook would probably be a better choice, since it's designed
> for writing technical books.
lets do it in MS Word, and print to PDF with Adobe Acrobat 5
seriously - MS Word does have very useful document tracking .....
:)
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POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk
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Rick [Kitty5] <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote:
: lets do it in MS Word, and print to PDF with Adobe Acrobat 5
: seriously - MS Word does have very useful document tracking .....
You assume that everyone can afford buying Word. (I don't.)
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I think that before we discuss printing programs or even content of the
book, we should settle on the grade of paper we are going to use.
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don't you need to know the font, how many exact pages up front, and whether
the ink is environment safe first? These are all pure logic to me...
I mean as long as the horse is pushing the cart... Right?
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"Dean MacIsaac" <dma### [at] starabiliascom> wrote in message
news:3c5acb41@news.povray.org...
> don't you need to know the font, how many exact pages up front, and
whether
> the ink is environment safe first? These are all pure logic to me...
>
> I mean as long as the horse is pushing the cart... Right?
You're right, especially about the page count. If we aren't doing a 845
page book, I think we should just give it up. I got a 846 page book once and
it was lousy.
All joking aside, if multiple people are going to work on a book,
choosing a common electronic format is the first step, but more than a
little debate is counterproductive. *.doc is common enough and has enough
emulators. Full MSWord .doc has some features that make writing a manual
much easier.
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> All joking aside, if multiple people are going to work on a book,
> choosing a common electronic format is the first step, but more than a
> little debate is counterproductive. *.doc is common enough and has enough
> emulators. Full MSWord .doc has some features that make writing a manual
> much easier.
which only MS word can use... unfortunately all non windows based word
converters at best recover the text and some formatting (if your lucky), all
the fancy goodies that would make Word a good choice for writing a book only
work on Word.
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Rick
Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com
POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk
TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037
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