[R] Authoring a book

[Tom Backer Johnsen]

Stefan Grosse wrote:
> I think Peter Dalgaard is right.
> 
> Since you are able to use R I believe you will be very fast in learning
> LaTeX.
> 
> I think it needs less then a week to learn the most common LaTeX
> commands. And setting up a wiki and trying then to convert this into a
> printable document format plus learning the wiki syntax is probably more
> time consuming. Beside this R is able to work perfectly together with
> LaTeX, it creates LaTeX output and is doing excellent graphics in the
> EPS/PS format.
> 
> The best introduction for LaTeX is the not so short introduction:
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/lshort.pdf

It really was a "not too short" intro.  I'll have a look at it.
> 
> If you still are not convinced have a look at UniWakkaWiki:
> http://uniwakka.sourceforge.net/HomePage
> 
> It is a Wiki for Science and University purposes and claims to be able
> to export to Openoffice as well as to LaTeX.

Looks interesting and I really like the concept, but how stable is it? 
  It looks rather fresh from the web page, but I may be wrong.  A 
bibliography function is really a big advantage, so ... perhaps.

Tom