[FM Discuss] Adding LaTeX to FlossManuals.net for polishing/ layout

[DancesWithCars]

Early in the ClassActs book sprint we talked about
whether FLOSSManuals.net use of HTML would
allow the high end graphics polish that the group
was originally shooting for (a National Geographics
style).

Having run across LaTeX recently again for something
else, it is open source and seems to be what is used
in publishing Manuscripts and Papers in the technical
areas, all the way up to the original book(s)
Knuth's Art of Programming series, so it has
the technical capability, and is open source,
though not as intuitive as one might wish.

So, I'll put it to the communities,
can FM exporting to LaTeX be used
to polish a book, maybe as post production,
to get away from the inherent limitations
of html source for layout?


We ended up using 4+ tools during the sprint,

wiki.laptop.org for the planning of the document
and event
etherpad.com for the table of contents
and flossmanuals.net

Audio Conference calls at least daily.

Afterward, our communication seems to be on
support gang, a private list, and IRC from
FM.


NB: I commend FM for what it's doing in making
online manuals for FLOSS, as they are sorely needed,
and look forward to a hard bound ClassActs,
even if my writing is really in there
after a week...

-- 
DancesWithCars
leave the wolves behind ;-)