This weekend I managed to climb the steepest part of the learning curve with formatting a book using LaTeX.
Watch this space, as I should be able to complete and publish this proof of concept pretty quickly. If this book works out to be worth my time, you can expect quite a bit more publishing from me soon.
@kyle I forced myself to learn LaTeX when I wrote my first book. It was an absolute pain that worked out great until I tried to publish via Amazon's platform. They wanted Word... Still, the physical copies I did through Lightning Source were immaculate!
Good luck with the rest of the journey! I will say once you get it working, it's much smoother sailing. 🙂
@JohnsNotHere Yes I already have a solid, formatted book with a single complete chapter in it as a proof of concept. It's now "just" a matter of adding the remaining chapters (already written) with formatting and indexing along the way, and picking some cover art.
Of course it's going a lot faster for me since I have already formatted numerous books using multiple publishers' own professional templates (ranging from XHTML, to web-based, to multiple Word templates) so I have that background.
