On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 10:17:36PM +0300, Yosef Leibovich wrote: > Hi, > 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)
Any decent word processor supports this. Only some word processors tend to hide that fact. > good equation insertion. > cons: Horrible hebrew+english handling (fixing up a f(x) is no > picnic...) use LRMs/RLMs > , 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. Please report bugs... > 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 Even older versions. But maybe they were of the more "hiding" type. I remember working with styles on Word97, and (after inspired by LaTeX and being forced by others to use Word2000) forced Word2000 to use styles in a relatively decent way. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
