I wish to write a mathematical book to be published (think Academon publication for instance, real book should be produced) (sollutions for questions in Misler's excellent book for Infinistimal Calculus BTW). I want to use open-source sollution however I think I might have no such oprions. I thought of the following options:
1) OpenOffice,
pros: WYSIWYG, easy text styling (one can define h1/2/3 and normal text) good equation insertion.
cons: Horrible hebrew+english handling (fixing up a f(x) is no picnic...), no one uses it, so I except no support from publicator
2) Latex,
pros: very easy styling and macroing (I can define answers and question, and decide later where to place them with a simple script), nice hebrew support.
cons: aplying new fonts should be problematic. Many hebrew related bugs (cutting equations wrongfully) I assume there will be some support for it but I'm not sure how much.
3) MS-Word,
pros: Very convinient method for embedding hebrew with English, extremely excellent support in all aspects (embedding different equation handler), new versions also do styles very nicely
cons: Equation writing is obnoxious (click on the sign you desire), non-opensource.
My questions are:
Will anything-other-than MS-Word will be accepted by publications (I've never written a mathematical book so I've no idea what are they using (heard of Quark but not sure what it is)
Is there any other method I missed for editing Hebrew mathematical texts, opensource or not.
What do you think is the best options for me, it seems that, sadly, MS-Word beats all other participants with one hand tied,
Thanks
Elazar Leibovich
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