asterisk users - Jul 2004 - John Vogel

Sorry you feel Strongly about the book but, I?m not trying to rip anyone
off but as it said on the back of the book and under the author I?m new,
to writing books I am trying to help the community out,  But I guess this
doesn?t really matter to you,

But if you know so much about asterisk and the way a book should be laid
out why don?t you write one?

BTW
I am open to ideas on improving the book as I said above I am not trying
to rip anyone off

The Author of Asterisk For Small Office Setup

Dan Cole

Best of whishes to you and your avenger?s

Just a word of advice.  This should not be posted to the list.  Even the
subject is addressed to one person, so why send it to the entire list.  It
certainly does not make you look very professional.

I can appreciate your desire to be first to the market but common sense
would dictate that you get an editor and release something free of grammatic
error at the least.  Personally, I would offer the guy a refund or a free
copy of book 2 in good faith.

I think this thread belongs here because of previous posts.  Caveat emptor!


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Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 6:22 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] John Vogel

> Sorry you feel Strongly about the book but, I?m not trying to rip anyone
> off but as it said on the back of the book and under the author I?m new,
> to writing books I am trying to help the community out,  But I guess this
> doesn?t really matter to you,
>
> But if you know so much about asterisk and the way a book should be laid
> out why don?t you write one?
>
> BTW
> I am open to ideas on improving the book as I said above I am not trying
> to rip anyone off
>
> The Author of Asterisk For Small Office Setup
>
> Dan Cole
>
> Best of whishes to you and your avenger?s
>
>
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Just submitting this to the list as a whole for peer review and 
additional feedback.

General suggestions for authoring:

1)  Learn LaTeX or at least LyX.  It will professionally arrange your 
table of contents, index, etc. quite well, and your publisher can 
control the layout quite well using external style sheets.  If your 
publisher doesn;t want to go to this trouble it will still greatly 
simplify your creation and maintenance of your book as it becomes longer.

Also, if you end up publishing it yourself, LaTeX will provide you with 
great features which will make your life MUCH easier and your work MUCH 
more professional-looking.  Personally I write all my documents in LaTeX 
using vim but that is strictly a matter of personal preference.

You could use Docbook SGML or XML instead of LaTeX, but I find LaTeX 
much simpler ot use.

2)  Hiring an editor is worth the expense.  The editor functions as a 
second set of eyes which can spot issues maybe you haven't.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Metatron Technology Consulting

techadmin@saww.net wrote:
>Sorry you feel Strongly about the book but, I?m not trying to rip anyone
>off but as it said on the back of the book and under the author I?m new,
>to writing books I am trying to help the community out,  But I guess this
>doesn?t really matter to you,
>
>But if you know so much about asterisk and the way a book should be laid
>out why don?t you write one?
>
>BTW
>I am open to ideas on improving the book as I said above I am not trying
>to rip anyone off
>
>The Author of Asterisk For Small Office Setup
>
>Dan Cole
>
>Best of whishes to you and your avenger?s
>
>
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