Comments on: Writing a Book With Free Software

By: Bellakosari

Bellakosari — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:55:00 +0000

i need to have this how can i do this i need to write my project im a 7th grader help my teacher said i have to type and print

By: MRoeDesigns

MRoeDesigns — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:15:00 +0000

Frederick,

all the software mentioned in the article is free, unless I am mistaken. I use ubuntu as well, and it comes with OpenOffice installed already. You can also manually install it from the site (OpenOffice.org) if you don't have it. As for the toolbar I'm sure you could find it on google or a similar search engine.

By: Frederick Bernard

Frederick Bernard — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:47:27 +0000

I am a 76yr old pensioner and I want to write my life story. You send me your info and program I promise you a copy

Thank you

Frederick

By: zahid

zahid — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:08:06 +0000

its great

By: Lucas Modrich

Lucas Modrich — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:06:23 +0000

Nice article Jono.

I'm in the "very" "very" early stages of trying to write a book about my travels. I blogged a fair bit while I was travelling, and am now trying to expand on that and put together a book about our experience.

I have zero budget for this project and it essentially a hobby at this point, so I'm also running Ubuntu and want to use Open Office - so was interested to hear your experience.

I am also a big fan of Leo, and his TWiT podcasts. Have been listening to you guys on FLOSS weekly lately. Great show - keep it up.

By: jaduncan

jaduncan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:32:24 +0000

You can’t be the real Rob Enderle, you haven’t made any outrageously blatant MS shilled comments.

By: GNUvox » Blog Archive » Scrivere libri con software libero

GNUvox » Blog Archive » Scrivere libri con software libero — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:30:05 +0000

[...] generici, liste TODO, ecc. Non da ultimo, Bacon utilizza GIMP per immagini, diagrammi e screenshot. Fonte Posted in Approfondimenti [...]

By: Rob Enderle

Rob Enderle — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:04:22 +0000

I am writing the book on an Ubuntu >laptop and using OpenOffice.org version 3.0.

So basically, youve been doing the same thing my 70 year old mum has been doing for 3-4 years now? How avant garde you are.

And its not an Ubuntu laptop. You meant to say its a Mac laptop running Ubuntu, you freedom hater ;-0

By: It’s not the tool …

It’s not the tool … — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:14:13 +0000

[...] (and definitely won’t be the last), Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon is writing a book using free software. Specifically, he’s using OpenOffice.org Writer in conjunction with a template supplied by [...]

By: yosch

yosch — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:39:56 +0000

Another promising book writing effort!

So you’re using FLOSS tools in your writing workflow and you negociated a particular Creative Commons license for the release of book itself…

The next step is probably investigating how you can convince O’reilly to make use of a non-restricted font in the final typesetting itself (regardless of the internal toolset they choose to use): picking font software under a community-recognized FLOSS license seems right for the content of such a book. I highly recommend an open font coming out of the collaborative community process as described in the book itself. It sends the right message.

There are quite a few quality open fonts that should fit your needs in the Europe tab of: http://unifont.org/fontguide/

We’ve worked on packaging them in Debian upstream and/or in Ubuntu.

How about being the first O’reilly author whose book has a colophon mentioning open fonts being used instead of the usual restricted ones? Wouldn’t that validate the premise of the book and set a great precedent?

Or maybe you’re OK with the deeply ironic contradiction of advocating a collaborative community model with restricted means of expression…

Think about it.

Here’s an example of a colophon mentioning an open font: “The Cultural significance of Free Software” http://twobits.net/cover/