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Working on the book

Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Sacha Chua

Now that I have an idea of what a good Wicked Cool Emacs book chapter looks like, I find it much easier to write and edit chapters. I’ve just finished revising my first three chapters based on my editor’s feedback, and they will be finding their way to my technical reviewer soon. Bursty productivity indeed.

Oh, that and productive application of structured procrastination… =)

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1. Alex Ott // May 2, 2008 at 5:10 am

   What format are you use for writing this book? Muse/Docbook/…. ?
   I had switched to Muse for all of my articles – it’s very good for such things, except some problems with selecting proper document structure.

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