By vgururao on

I am starting work on a book project that I would like to design from the get-go as an online "living book" with a community of contributors and readers around it, and the ability to very quickly produce micro-editions and personalized editions in print format. My first thought was to use my favorite tool, LaTeX, and run the book project in subversion with a simple blog as the front end, which would require my book collaborators to learn to use Subversion. I am now leaning towards doing the project as a Drupal site with a book module. Can the expert folks here help me out with some of these higher-level questions?

1. Can you point me to some good example book projects (WITH a print component, not pure online) run on Drupal?

2. Do you have an easy decision rule about whether 'Latex on Subversion' or Drupal is the better model, and whether it is possible to integrate the two (I didn't see any modules for automatically compiling the book module pages into latex source)?

3. I anticipate that I'll be able to develop a small community of contributors (not co-authors) who supply things like relevant news references, public domain pictures/graphics, collateral content in a wiki, argue contentious points in a forum etc. Any pointers to book projects that operate this way DURING the authoring process (rather than after the release of the first print edition)?

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vm commented

I can't comment on the bulk of this post however, I did notice a latexgen.module in the downloads area that you may want to investigate

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