This might not be a welcome comment but I feel it may be useful. I'm surprised you're using MS Word to write your manuscript. I consider Word to be a great program, but it is not a real, professional document-producing system. It is great for a small, quick documents but not for books.

I think LaTeX would be a better choice. It really produces amazing results, and it is used for real books, e.g. Applied Operating System Concepts. LaTeX documents can be easily converted to PostScript, PDF and HTML. I have written 100+ page documents with LaTeX, and the output is truly amazing.

As you're 2 thirds of the way through your book, I don't suppose this is of much help to you know.... but all would-be book authors take note! I'm attempting to write a book at the minute (nothing to do with Perl though) and LaTeX is what I'll be using.

In reply to Re: Regular Expressions in Perl: tutorial section (10 chapters) completed by SuperCruncher
in thread Regular Expressions in Perl: tutorial section (10 chapters) completed by japhy

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