Re: Context manuals

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Friday 22 February 2002 09:02, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> In message <008901c1badf$fecb6360$6401a8c0@lap>,
>
> on Thu, 21 Feb 2002 at 14:59:25, Frans Goddijn wrote:
> >> >- The question is how to organize this matter:
> >> > through Pragma or W. Egger (BOEDE)?
> >> >Personally I would be interested to set it up.
> >>
> >>  www.greatunpublished.com have already
> >> done it.
> >
> >Well they haven't for the manual(s) we are talking about here.
> > That business looks more like an enterprise to sell service to
> > authors who can't find a publisher and are tired of getting their
> > manuscripts returned to them. What we were talking about is not a
> > service that would typeset Hans' manual for him and get it ready
> > for the printer (he's done that better than anyone could) but a
> > service point on both sides of the ocean and eventually on every
> > continent except Antarctica where people can order the printed
> > and nicely bound copy from a TeX user who knows what's actually
> > in the manual
>
> Go and look at their offer again more carefully - that's *exactly*
> what greatunpublished do. They are perfectly able to accept a
> pre-formatted PDF file and print directly from it. The typesetting
> service is only for those that need it (which is probably most of
> their users, admittedly). The only restriction on you is that you
> have to fit to their standard paper size. They take orders from and
> deliver to pretty much anywhere in the world.
>

There is still a problem with all that color printing. The manuals
as currently offered will be beyond the scope of most POD publishers,
and if color is used on very many pages quite expensive. At a minimum 
the 
chapter headings wold need to be reworked.  And the chapter on Color
would make no sense presented in grayscale.

Duplicating at several cent per page in color would also be 
costly. 

Hopefully Hans Hagen can offer us some guidance when he is available.
>

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John Culleton, john@wexfordpress.com
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