On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Brandorr wrote:

> What about Adobe CS2? It is widely used in the publishing industry. (Mac/PC
> though)

Ok, maybe I should've added:

f) needs to run on Solaris/x86

My primary work system is running that. And besides, I'd think Adobe's 
toolchain doesn't involve files editable with an ordinary text editor :(

FrankH.


>
> On 8/8/07, Frank Hofmann <Frank.Hofmann at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm considering re-writing / updating the Crashdump Analysis book, but
>> this time in a "proper" way - that is, specifically, not as a StarOffice
>> document but in some sort of a markup language. The StarOffice thing is
>> simply not maintainable :(
>>
>> TeX comes to mind as I've used it before, but I'd like to know what other
>> alternatives people use. My requirements apart from the typesetting
>> capabilitities would be:
>>
>> a) input is plain text, aka editable with any ASCII-capable editor
>> b) ability to embed vector graphics (preferrable SVG) as illustrations
>> c) ability to create PDF output
>> d) automatic index/TOC generation
>> e) documents can consist of multiple files (one per chapter), and be
>>     transferrable to another machine without the need to edit pathnames
>>
>> What are others using ? Any recommendations ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> FrankH.
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