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.

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