Poor quality books

Aug 01, 2007 22 Replies

Wow, that is impressive. I am embarassed to say I have never heard of this, or of the English editions you mention below.

I publish papers as part of my research, and do virtually all my other documents as well in the same typesetting program: TeX (mostly its various macro packages, such as LaTeX, XeTeX, pdfTeX, pTeX and so on). After spending almost 8 years discovering how it all works, especially how the text and lines of absolutely all figures can be directly controlled by the program, while the bitmap portions (color) of images are left to whatever program did those, I am completely sold on the idea of self-publishing. When I submit manuscripts, I ask that I have control over the final details, which include of course page breaks and whatever rewording is required to make all lines appear properly justified. In any case, there's no way I'd get what I want for reasonable cost from a publisher. If you need any input, I'm very happy to provide it.

Cheers, Gernot

I've heard of it; it was a fairly famous book in modeling circles at the time.

Pat

American edition still available in very small quantties. Original price for the hardcover was $28.95. I'm selling them for $15 plus postage.

Address:

Tom Young

38 Prince Royal Passage Corte Madera, California 94925

Tom

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