On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Rainer Heilke wrote: > The only FOSS tool I can think of is Scribus, but it may not be advanced > enough for what you need. If not, InDesign (part of Adobe CS) is the only > commercial DTP tool worth considering. It's expensive, though. (And CS3 is > out.) > > Rainer
What I'm rather looking for is experiences on writing things directly in a markup language, aka troff, TeX, SGML, HTML/CSS - am I dreaming there and everyone these days has resorted to using GUI tools only ? I've heard of Scribus; it's supposed to be a DTP software, but that's not strictly what I'm looking for. Layout is a minor part of my worries; Large sections of text and simple control over text formatting (style definitions) are more important, and so is the ability to store the document (parts) in a plaintext format. Interesting feedback - thanks ! FrankH. > > Brandorr wrote: > >> What about Adobe CS2? It is widely used in the publishing industry. (Mac/PC >> though) >> >> On 8/8/07, *Frank Hofmann* < Frank.Hofmann at sun.com >> <mailto: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. >> > >
