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On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:44:28 -0500, Bill DeWitt wrote:
> anyway. But since we are talking about a book with images and special
> character formats, there is no chance that we will be using platform
> independent, open source file formats. May as well go with a full featured,
Why is that? Have you actually looked at DocBook? WordPerfect even does
a fairly good job of working with XML and SGML; surely any writer who's
serious about his or her craft has either that or FrameMaker, right?
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end O(0)O(3)Q("JNKLCGCD",0)light_source{x 1}// ron### [at] povray org
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"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote :
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> Why is that? Have you actually looked at DocBook?
I note that the official DocBook online book is written in html.
> WordPerfect even does
> a fairly good job of working with XML and SGML; surely any writer who's
> serious about his or her craft has either that or FrameMaker, right?
Perhaps, but Word would be the minimum I would expect. WordPerfect and
FrameMaker are great, but not that much better than Word (I have the Corel
Suite and don't use it). Since the office version of Word comes with most
computers (or you can get Works for $49), spending the extra for Adobe is a
little silly for most uses. It's sort of like the guy who spends $6000 for a
sound system and listens to his music on cassettes. There is no arguing that
the system is great, but $5000 of it is wasted.
Each section can be made in the povray editor for all I care, it is the
formatting for publication that matters and most of us will not have to
worry about that.
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Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote:
: Perhaps, but Word would be the minimum I would expect.
So if you don't have Word, you don't contribute?
Btw, LaTeX is not only a geeks' tool. It's really used quite a lot for
serious publications (specially scientific ones).
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N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}// - Warp -
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Warp wrote:
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> Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote:
> : Perhaps, but Word would be the minimum I would expect.
>
> So if you don't have Word, you don't contribute?
Plain text can easily be imported into Word documents but there is no
reason to restrict *everyone* to that antiquated format.
> Btw, LaTeX is not only a geeks' tool. It's really used quite a lot for
> serious publications (specially scientific ones).
Were it not for the rare mention of it here in the news groups I would
have never heard of it.
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Ken Tyler
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Ken wrote:
> > Btw, LaTeX is not only a geeks' tool. It's really used quite a lot for
> > serious publications (specially scientific ones).
>
> Were it not for the rare mention of it here in the news groups I would
> have never heard of it.
I just got back home from a major software retailer and they neither
carry nor have ever heard of LaTeX.
--
Ken Tyler
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On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 17:05:38 -0800, Ken wrote:
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> Ken wrote:
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>> > Btw, LaTeX is not only a geeks' tool. It's really used quite a lot for
>> > serious publications (specially scientific ones).
>>
>> Were it not for the rare mention of it here in the news groups I would
>> have never heard of it.
>
> I just got back home from a major software retailer and they neither
> carry nor have ever heard of LaTeX.
They don't carry it because there's no margin on freeware.
They've never heard of it because the minimum-wage high-school students
who work there don't tend to know about anything but the extended warranty
program and maybe the currently popular games.
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pigment_map{[.3R][.3H][.7H][.7R]}]}}}camera{location.5-3*z}//only my opinions
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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:3C5C8CE2.A9000EE0@pacbell.net...
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> Ken wrote:
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> > > Btw, LaTeX is not only a geeks' tool. It's really used quite a lot
for
> > > serious publications (specially scientific ones).
> >
> > Were it not for the rare mention of it here in the news groups I would
> > have never heard of it.
>
> I just got back home from a major software retailer and they neither
> carry nor have ever heard of LaTeX.
I've heard of it, but I have never heard of any serious writer who uses
it for final product. But then, I mostly know about the habits of fiction
writers, not technical writers.
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> I've heard of it, but I have never heard of any serious writer who
uses
> it for final product. But then, I mostly know about the habits of fiction
> writers, not technical writers.
>
>
To quote Stephen King from the afterword of his latest novel "Dreamcatcher"
"This book was written with the world's finest word
processor, a Waterman cartridge fountain pen."
Pardon me while I veer on topic. I would rather see several normal books
(300 pages) rather than a single 1000+ page luggable. Some suggestions are
1) Intro to POV (like an update of raytracing creations).
2) POV animation
3) POV Hardcore( see the test) Macro madness?
4) 3rd party Tools for use with POV(Moray, Rhino, Poser...)
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Springer is using an own TeX System, which is similar to LaTeX. And you
won't find any mathematical publication, which is not written in TeX or
tools build on TeX. But I doubt if it's an elegant solution for the layout
of an raytracing book.
Florian Pesth
"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3C5C8CE2.A9000EE0@pacbell.net...
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>
> Ken wrote:
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> > > Btw, LaTeX is not only a geeks' tool. It's really used quite a lot
for
> > > serious publications (specially scientific ones).
> >
> > Were it not for the rare mention of it here in the news groups I would
> > have never heard of it.
>
> I just got back home from a major software retailer and they neither
> carry nor have ever heard of LaTeX.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
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"Tom Galvin" <tom### [at] nospamdataforgecom> wrote :
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> To quote Stephen King from the afterword of his latest novel
"Dreamcatcher"
>
> "This book was written with the world's finest word
> processor, a Waterman cartridge fountain pen."
I'll bet his editor doesn't agree with that sentiment.
> Pardon me while I veer on topic. I would rather see several normal books
> (300 pages) rather than a single 1000+ page luggable. Some suggestions
are
>
> 1) Intro to POV (like an update of raytracing creations).
> 2) POV animation
> 3) POV Hardcore( see the test) Macro madness?
> 4) 3rd party Tools for use with POV(Moray, Rhino, Poser...)
Good divisions, either for a single book -or- multiple books.
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