Re: Openoffice import?

[David Kastrup]

Helge Hafting <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02. juni 2011 10:15, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> The problem is that this is an article written using pdflatex and
>> lilypond-book, and the publisher (haha) asks for a DOC file.  Of
>> course,
>
> Ouch. that can be a lot of work. Have you tried negotiating another
> format with them? Some publishers accept camera-ready PDF, which
> pdflatex can produce. I printed a book that way.

They got the PDF right from the start.

> Of course, making a camera-ready PDF is some work too - instead of
> them editing the book, you will have to mess with margins, tweak
> spacing and so on. And you'll have to correct every typo yourself
> instead of them just fixing it.

Well, I think I'll just skip on another iteration, having received the
printed magazine with the first part of the article (I happen to have a
subscription, or I would not have noticed).  The table-of-contents
closeup for that article was made from one of my Lilypond graphics, so
it is quite clear that the publisher was able to make use of one of the
provided scalable graphics versions.

Though I have heard nothing from the publisher or editor himself, I have
a distinct hunch that any additional investment of work would not
actually be useful.

-- 
David Kastrup