[R] Authoring a book

[Stefan Grosse]

I think Peter Dalgaard is right.

Since you are able to use R I believe you will be very fast in learning
LaTeX.

I think it needs less then a week to learn the most common LaTeX
commands. And setting up a wiki and trying then to convert this into a
printable document format plus learning the wiki syntax is probably more
time consuming. Beside this R is able to work perfectly together with
LaTeX, it creates LaTeX output and is doing excellent graphics in the
EPS/PS format.

The best introduction for LaTeX is the not so short introduction:
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/lshort.pdf

If you still are not convinced have a look at UniWakkaWiki:
http://uniwakka.sourceforge.net/HomePage

It is a Wiki for Science and University purposes and claims to be able
to export to Openoffice as well as to LaTeX.

Stefan Grosse



>>>
>>> I have my own server, Windows, based on Apache, PhP, and MySQL.
>>>       
>> SVN and LaTeX would be my tools of choice.
>>     
>
> A very different approach.  SVN is not something I am aquainted with, 
> but should be worth looking into.  As to LaTex, the closest I have 
> worked with is Lyx.
>
> The problem is, there are two other authors I have to persuade to 
> learn new tools.  So, it might be too complex.
>
> Tom
>