[OS X TeX] Writing a book

[William Adams]

On Jan 30, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Paul Dulaney wrote:

> Why would a publisher say he can't handle LaTeX? Isn't it just a matter of handling the resultant PDF file?

A publisher expects to be able to:

 - control the design / format / appearance of the book
 - edit the text of the book to conform to their house style

A raw .pdf file isn't well-suited for that. You basically have three choices:

 - find a publisher who groks LaTeX
 - find a publisher who will allow you to do all the work of production, including copy-editing --- the publisher will expect to be able to provide you w/ a book design / typesetting specification and have you apply that to the manuscript. You'll then need to nicely typeset the pages
 - allow the publisher to convert your book from LaTeX to some other format and produce it manually

William


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