I converted the PDF of one of my chapters to HTML the other day using ps2ascii (which worked very well, despite not being pdf2ascii), and I found myself wondering what other publishers use in the development of books.
I can understand PDF as a format to go to the printer with, but I had to write the entire book in Word format, which seemed ... weak? I'm not an expert on the various options here, but I would assume things like troff and latex would be more "industrial strength". Using a word processor just seems more like what one would use to write a paper for school.
This is just my rambling curiosity, however. The staff at Sams was most professional and friendly the entire time, so I have no regrets, and I think the book turned out quite well.
You can see my sample chapter (more to come) at:
http://httphandbook.org/?task=samples&chapter=18
Re:welcome
shiflett on 2003-03-04T21:56:09
Thanks.
I should thank you for the favicon - hope you don't mind!:-)
I'm not sure why httphandbook.org won't resolve for you, but I can tell you exactly what's there:
[chris@alpha]~> telnet httphandbook.org 80
Trying 64.85.73.31...
Connected to m1.dnsix.com (64.85.73.31).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: httphandbook.org
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 22:12:12 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.3
Location: http://shiflett.org/books/httphandbook/
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
0
Connection closed by foreign host.
[chris@alpha]~>
I thought you might appreciate this little example.
