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Re:Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later by mikepurvis on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:00PM (#20218356)
I wanted to use a workflow like this years ago working with Apress. Possibly (hopefully) things are better now, but at least at the time, all their tooling expected Word docs as the input, and you had to use a very specific stylesheet (including goofy stuff like magic text strings to insert images).

There were also some manual transformation steps occurring on their end, because there was a cutover point where the Word doc was no longer accepted and you had to just quote page and line numbers to get further changes made.

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Re:Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later by munificent on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:46PM (#20218789)
> There were also some manual transformation steps occurring on their end, because there was a cutover point where the Word doc was no longer accepted

This was probably the point at which the text had been moved into InDesign for typesetting by the designer.

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Re:Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later by wyldfire on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:55PM (#20218849)
Are there publishers who are more accommodating of inputs like LaTeX/pandoc/markdown/etc? It'd be great to know that kind of thing when considering publishers.
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Re:Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later by bokumo on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:21PM (#20219047)
I think No Starch Press accepts LaTeX markup. There is a nostarch package on CTAN. https://ctan.org/pkg/nostarch?lang=en
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Re:Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later by geerlingguy on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:20PM (#20219041)
You should check out LeanPub. They support a variety of formats, and do some really nice things if you want to self-publish.
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Re:Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later by cosmodisk on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @07:05PM (#20219344)
The content of their books is often OK, however low-res images,pixelated tables and some random font and its size makes those books look funny..
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Re:Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later by ghaff on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:27PM (#20218620)
Word docs, Sharepoint. (Though I didn't have that experience with images.)
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