Anyone ever written a book with Leo?

Jacob Peck

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May 16, 2013, 2:02:46 PM5/16/13

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Hello all,

Just a conversation topic here. I'm in the process of writing a few
smallish books (20-100 pages) in ConTeXt with Leo as my editor.

The outlining powers of Leo are absolutely astounding in this context.
Having each bit of the text represented as a node, being able to
rearrange them on a whim, just makes the writing process so simple. And
I haven't even touched the chapters plugin! (Speaking of which, is
there a simple tutorial/doc/screencast for that?)

Just curious if anyone else has written a lengthy document or a book in
Leo, and if so, if they have any tips to share? I know I would have
*loved* Leo a couple of years ago when I was writing my honors thesis
for my undergrad degree. I would have been able to script all of those
midi -> png -> LaTeX conversions...

Anywho, just curious.

-->Jake

wgw

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May 16, 2013, 3:16:22 PM5/16/13

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Some discussion here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/3bIIT2VE9hg/dC9dIn07R9gJ

Using rst + latex + sphinx. The zip file has all the files for this (short) book ...on writing books with Leo. Google does a fair job at translating the Chinese of the html files. Here is the first paragraph (a little wonky, but readable):

Write technical books is a very time-consuming, not only need to write interesting content, need to use a standard a nice format presents content. In the process of writing Python scientific computing, "a book, I try to use the the Sphinx, Leo, MiKTeX software, to piece together a set of authoring environment suitable for the preparation of technical books and documents. This book is introduced on the authoring environment.

Of course, the Leo docs are perhaps a better example of how to write with leo + rst + sphinx.

I have often wondered how to use Leo with Lyx... Lyx has things like version control and is fairly wysiwyg -- they say, ...wysiwym..mean. Add to that zotero, and it is a fairly complete environment for writing books. (But books seem boring compared to software!... )

Largo84

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May 16, 2013, 7:57:25 PM5/16/13

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Yes, I use Leo all the time to write books (training manuals in my case). I use LaTex primarily. Each 'chapter' or 'section' is a separate file and I use the \input{...} method in LaTex to pull it all together. That way I can create custom manuals using different versions of the files without having to rewrite anything. Works great! Don't know how I could do it without Leo.

Rob...........