Re: Manual of the Beast

[Brian Gough]

At Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:05:27 +0200,
Søren Hauberg wrote:
>    Since I can now build Octave from CVS I had a quick look at the 
> result of 'make octave-smallbook.pdf' in 'doc/interpreter'. The manual 
> is currently 666 (number of the Beast, we should probably avoid that 
> specific number of pages :-) ) pages. I'll try to spend some time on 
> minimizing the number of overfull paragraphs.
>    Anyway, since the manual is getting quite big, I got curious as to 
> how the book will be published. Will this be a two-volume book? If so, 
> do we need to do something specific to split the manual or will the 
> publishers do that?

Up to about 800 pages I can publish it as a single volume (although it
tends to get unwieldy at that size).  

-- 
Brian Gough

Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/