Re: [Help-smalltalk] "Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk" is out!

[Cesar Rabak]

> Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>> Here is the home-printed version ;)
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/indeyets/4015203658/
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>
> It looks cool :)
>
>> Thanks Canol! I actually like the book. Seems like a good school-book
>> for people who start learning programming.
>> Do you plan to release source-code of the book somewhere? There are
>> some inaccuracies within the text and I will be glad to provide patches.
>> Github would be the most convenient tool for this, I believe.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, the book is written with, ehem, OpenOffice Writer. Which is not
> convenient to use with VCSs (and actually not convenient for writing big 
> books).
> I wish I had time to learn and rewrite it in LaTeX or DocBook. Hopefully I'll
> rewrite it in the future (not anytime soon because of my lectures) but in the
> mean time, you might send the inaccuracies to me by email.
>
> I'm also open if anyone else can rewrite the book in one of the languages I
> mentioned above so that the community can work on future releases together. I
> can release the .odt file for convenience if any volunteer comes up...
>
Canol,

Can't you export the odt file to LaTeX using Writer2Latex or similar
tool and have even if raw LaTeX file to do the editing?