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- [colophon]
- == Appendix: Colophon
- Almost all of the software that I have used in the creation of this book are <<floss,FLOSS>>.
- === Birth of the Book
- In the first draft of this book, I had used Red Hat 9.0 Linux as the foundation of my setup and in
- the sixth draft, I used Fedora Core 3 Linux as the basis of my setup.
- Initially, I was using KWord to write the book (as explained in the <<history_lesson,history
- lesson>> in the preface).
- === Teenage Years
- Later, I switched to DocBook XML using Kate but I found it too tedious. So, I switched to
- OpenOffice which was just excellent with the level of control it provided for formatting as well as
- the PDF generation, but it produced very sloppy HTML from the document.
- Finally, I discovered XEmacs and I rewrote the book from scratch in DocBook XML (again) after I
- decided that this format was the long term solution.
- In the sixth draft, I decided to use Quanta+ to do all the editing. The standard XSL stylesheets
- that came with Fedora Core 3 Linux were being used. However, I had written a CSS document to give
- color and style to the HTML pages. I had also written a crude lexical analyzer, in Python of
- course, which automatically provides syntax highlighting to all the program listings.
- For the seventh draft, I'm using http://www.mediawiki.org[MediaWiki] as the basis of my setup. I
- used to edit everything online and the readers can directly read/edit/discuss within the wiki
- website, but I ended up spending more time fighting spam than writing.
- For the eight draft, I used http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/vim[Vim],
- http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html[Pandoc], and Mac OS X.
- === Now
- For the ninth draft, I switched to http://asciidoctor.org/docs/what-is-asciidoc/[AsciiDoc format]
- and used http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2013/03/11/whats-new-emacs-24-3/[Emacs 24.3],
- https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme[tomorrow theme],
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os/typeface/#download-primary[Fira Mono
- font] and https://github.com/sensorflo/adoc-mode/wiki[adoc-mode] to write.
- === About the Author
- See http://swaroopch.com/about/
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