From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 11:22:24 EDT
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> Bernie Dolan <dolan@jeol.com> writes:
>
> > > There isnīt any wordprocessor that has got this option. When you have
> > > to print a document to bind a book, you have to:
> > > 1.- Put option "apaisado" (I donīt know how it is said in english the
> > > option to turn the page)
> > > 2.- Chouse two columns.
> > > 3.- Order manually the pages in several notebooks that after they are
> > > goint to be doubled and sewed: for example, if you decided notebooks
> > > made of 4 pages, the order will be: page 16 and page 1 in the first
> > > face of the first page, in the second face will be printed the 2 and
> > > the 15; in the second page will be printed the 14 and the 3 and in the
> > > second face the 4 and the 13....
> > >
> > > 4.- And finally, print.
> > >
> > Oh Contrair
> >
> > The program Framemaker is a word processor (and much more) that can do
> > all the required formattng to print a book, and such things as make
> > outlines, TOC's, and such from the doccument.
> >
> > The ONLY problem is it costs far too much.
>
> I think the point is that this is not the best way to produce a book,
> though it might be the one that is most suited to the least skilled.
>
> The free software community provides many book production tools, TeX
> for example, can easily handle the production of books.
>
> AbiWord is going down the right road in being interoperable with
> things like TeX, it already can output to XHTML.
>
And LaTeX which is even closer to TeX :-). I suspect though that the Latex
exporter no longer works very well. It hasn't been touched in a long time
:-(
Cheers
Martin
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