Niall Mansfield has been in touch with the Committee, looking for some input on the potential for getting a number of LaTeX books in German translated in English. The general topics of the books are:
- LaTeX reference
- Maths with LaTeX
- Tables with LaTeX
- PSTricks
- KOMA-Script
Niall is hoping to to get input into three general questions:
- Is this a useful book for the (La)TeX world?
- What sort of demand would there be? (This isn’t scientific: “wow, lots of people would need this” or “great book, but nobody is likely to buy it because …” is the sort of granularity that’s OK.)
- How long would this book last before a new edition is likely to be:
- desirable
- essential
After some discussion with the Committee, Niall has agree to take the books along to the regular The Tech Pub Crawl this Tuesday (the 5th of May). Niall will be at the The Marketplace Bar, 11 Marketplace, London W1W 8AH from about 6 p.m. (nearest tube Oxford Circus). Anyone wishing to get hold of Niall directly should e-mail the Committee.
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I am very pleased to read that you are looking for German LaTeX books to be translated into English. Indeed, there has been a boom in books on LaTeX published in this country, lately. I just would like to say that me and other members of DANTE reviewed most of them for DANTE’s journal DTK and for German IT magazine c’t. Most of the reviews can be found on CTAN at: ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/digests/dtk/book_reviews/. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
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