Reply to: Writing a book could do with a word book template

[NickFitz]

Isn't the animal on the cover wrong. Surely it should be a mammoth, dodo or an equally extinct creature. The giant tortoise they talked about on QI would be highly appropriate. Extinct and slow.

The cover generator only has ten or so animals to choose from. I chose what I reckoned was the most ungainly of the selection

[NickFitz]

PS: what's a .do page?

It's a moderately common extension used for servlets running under Tomcat, used mainly because it was used in some of the earliest documentation and tutorials for that platform. Its presence in a URL is, like the presence of .php or .aspx, a sign of fail - if a filename extension is included in a URL it should denote the nature of the representation of the resource (e.g. .html, .js, .css), not the technology used to serve it.

[d000hg]

I've got this excel catalogued full of tips and tricks and cookbook info for the portfolio of shiny .net components and db's and o/s that I've built up for a number of years

Did you realise O'Reilly have a specific range of Cookbooks which specifically retain the format of tips and tricks which don't get forced into a coherent book?

Cookbooks - Series - O'Reilly Media

PS: what's a .do page?

[OwlHoot]

Evening Laaaaaaaaaads,

writing a .net book for administrators of the newer shiny stuff

been compiling a tipsheet/cookbook excel sheet for years on a whole range of .net shiny components
and databases and unix and windows etc

and now it's time to extrapolate all that info and put it into a book and monetise it

currently writing the first draft of the book and was wondering if anyone knows of useful
word templates for fillings in the gaps for writing a book ?

later questions will be how to publish it :-) currently in talks with a .net publisher, but there are other options, interested to hear if anyone else has done this ?

ta

Milan.

Not another one - There are hundreds of .Net books for administrators already!

[TheFaQQer]

Evening Laaaaaaaaaads,

writing a .net book for administrators of the newer shiny stuff

been compiling a tipsheet/cookbook excel sheet for years on a whole range of .net shiny components
and databases and unix and windows etc

and now it's time to extrapolate all that info and put it into a book and monetise it

currently writing the first draft of the book and was wondering if anyone knows of useful
word templates for fillings in the gaps for writing a book ?

later questions will be how to publish it :-) currently in talks with a .net publisher, but there are other options, interested to hear if anyone else has done this ?

ta

Milan.

If you are in talks with a publisher, then ask them if they have a standard template - most do, and you will need to have it in their template to make typesetting and editing easier. O'Reilly have a decent template on their website that you can download - that's what I did for mine.

Alternatively, if you are looking to self-publish then you will need to make sure that the template that you use matches the paper sizes and margins that your book is going to need. Lulu.com have some templates available, but they are more around getting the size of the page right, whereas the O'Reilly template has some decent styles and macros defined to make it consistent across the book.

Bear in mind that you might need to use capital letters, punctuation and decent grammar in order to make the book a real prospect.

[eek]

O'Reilly - Tape Changing

Isn't the animal on the cover wrong. Surely it should be a mammoth, dodo or an equally extinct creature. The giant tortoise they talked about on QI would be highly appropriate. Extinct and slow.

[SupremeSpod]

FFS - have you never worked with tapes?

Or is the advanced stuff in book 2?

- Use of the WPR
- Adding BOT / EOT markers.
- Cleaning a tape
- What to do when the vacuum pump starts leaking.

ftfy

[MarillionFan]

FFS - have you never worked with tapes?

Or is the advanced stuff in book 2?

- Use of the WPR
- Adding BOT / EOT markers.
- Cleaning a tape

I get a man in for that.

[mudskipper]

Chapter 1 - Overview of Tape Changing
Chapter 2 - Removing a Tape
Chapter 3 - Inserting a Tape
Chapter 4 - Restoring a Tape
Chapter 5 - Disaster Recovery - Taking a tape to another site
Chapter 6 - Troubleshooting a tape
Chapter 7 - Punch cards - Just in case

FFS - have you never worked with tapes?

Or is the advanced stuff in book 2?

- Use of the WPR
- Adding BOT / EOT markers.
- Cleaning a tape

[NickFitz]

O'Reilly - Tape Changing

[milanbenes]

Milan old chap,

You are an uber-moron. Please whatever happens please keep posting this crap, I nearly wee'd myself.

Suity me old fruit,

if my posts will distract you and make you laugh and stop you wimping out on contracts I will only be too pleased to help

have you tidied up that dale farm back garden yet ?

All the best,

Milan.

nb don't forget, I'm a member of the SY01 Kleak.

[MarillionFan]

Chapter 1 - Overview of Tape Changing
Chapter 2 - Removing a Tape
Chapter 3 - Inserting a Tape
Chapter 4 - Restoring a Tape
Chapter 5 - Disaster Recovery - Taking a tape to another site
Chapter 6 - Troubleshooting a tape
Chapter 7 - Punch cards - Just in case

[suityou01]

Milan old chap,

You are an uber-moron. Please whatever happens please keep posting this crap, I nearly wee'd myself.

[milanbenes]

thanks dad

it should be quite easy....

I've got this excel catalogued full of tips and tricks and cookbook info for the portfolio of shiny .net components and db's and o/s that I've built up for a number of years

and it's been on my mind for a while now to extract the info from the excel sheet into a pocket book for .net administrators

the info is gold

so, it's not like I can get writer's block or something it's just copy and paste and organise and collate

so fingers crossed, the task is to finish the task and then find a way to publish it

Milan.

[EternalOptimist]

thank you EO and Nickerless.

Milan

gud luck mate