<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">When I published two books with Louisiana State University Press in the 1990s, they let me write it in LaTeX. The first time I gave them camera-ready copy (this was before pdfLaTeX), and they proceeded from there. The second time I sent them pdf output, and they proceeded from there. But I worked with their designer closely and entered all their copy-edits myself. The process was quick and easy both times, and using LaTeX cut both the production time and the cost of the book. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Turning Point Books also did a book of mine straight from pdfs. They were TeX-savvy anyway, so I could have sent them my sources, but I didn't.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">When I did my most recent book from Harvard University Press they knew about LaTeX but weren't eager to work with LaTeX sources, so I turned my output into Word using Tex4ht, and they handled it from there. I seemed to me like turning a Porsche into a Pinto, but that's how they could handle it, and it worked out OK. The only issue was that I had done a great deal of cross-referencing. But they wanted to remove all the cross-references anyway. I was able to use the same route to do my bibliography. But since I had to do the index from their galleys I would up having to do that by hand. It would have been easier by far with MakeIndex.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I found it a hassle, but not an impossible one, to make the conversion. Certainly it was worth it to be able to write the book in LaTeX, which I'm comfortable using, rather than in Word, which I'm not.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">John</div></div>