Frank Hofmann wrote: > 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 ?
As far as I know then, you're stuck with TeX. NetBeans has some capabilities, but it doesn't sound like it will meet your criteria. HTML won't give you decent book ouutput at all. Rainer > > 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.
