Obviously, I am biased, but this is the sort of thing I designed multimarkdown for. It's also the sort of project I would consider using Scrivener to help organize. My own workflow for a project like this would be to use Scrivener to organize sections, chapters, etc. You can optionally use an "Edit in TextMate" command (though I don't know offhand if that works in Leopard yet or not) so that you can edit the text in TM.
http://fletcherpenney.net/MultiMarkdown
Scrivener could then export the document as plain text. If you did your writing using the MMD syntax, it could be converted to LaTeX->PDF.
If your book is mostly text and simple stuff, you wouldn't need to learn LaTeX. But if it got complicated, you could learn just the necessary amount of LaTeX to get it done.
That's my personal preference, but it may not suit your style.
On 6/5/08, marios tmtxpstuff@consking.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to gather some suggestions for the following.
- Don't want to go into that Latex thing.
- Keep chapters in simple Text Format ( or markdown or Textile )
- Project also contains a huge amount of reference files in txt and pdf
format 4) What's the best way to handle:
a) Index b) footnotes c) References d) Appendixes etc.
Is it a good thing to keep the Book in one single file, or is it better to use multiple files ?
Suggestions, links and resources welcome
regards, marios
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