Hi folks

I searched the Internet about writing a book. I found on the O´Reilly web site a section "Writing for O´Reilly" (http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/index.html). On this site, in chapter 2 there are tree sub-chapters which I found interesting for us.

a) What will the book be good for ? (http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/index.html) b) The outline (http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch02.html#theoutline) c) Tools (http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch02.html#tools) I think we should think and answer question a). Otherwise it could be, that we write a book which is useless.

b) is for me a good starting point. In the outline we can find out the work we will have. We also can control our self, that we don´t forget something important.

c) there is a package (ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/dblite/dblite.tar.gz) which is very useful if we decide to use DokBook. O´Reilly has defined a subset of dokbook to use to write books. They have also described how to use the so called DokBook Lite (or DBLite). With examples how to split the book in different files, some help for the physical and logical structure of a book. I think there is everything written what we need in this early state of our book project.

cheers Stefan