Andreas Siegert wrote:
Subject: Re: [users] Re: Open Office and Desktop publishing
Date: Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:07:38PM -0500
Hi William,
Have a look at LaTeX. It has all of the fine tuning controls you could
want; is used for professional publishing; and in spite of its first
overwhelming appearance has a short learning curve to get started.
>
By the time I had programmed the LaTeX layout, I would have finished half
of the book ;-)
The _first time around_ I'll bet the exact same was true of FM :-)
The whole point of both systems is that once you've set them up for a
particular type of document, they can be reused ad infinitum (or ad
nauseam, if you prefer).
And as far as I know, LaTeX does not handle images with embedded ICC profiles
properly in conversion to PDF which is key of my next project.
I believe the current release of pdflatex now does this. If not yet,
ConTeXt probably does.
LaTeX, been there, done that, not for the type of stuff I want to write.
[La]TeX is for consistent _formatting_, at which it beats everything
else hands down. I couldn't recommend it for _authoring_ (or editing)
unless you're prepared to learn the commands (which are not difficult)
or you need real mathematics (at which TeX has been unsurpassed for
nearly 30 years). The available GUIs for LaTeX are quite good but they
still don't implement many features which would make them usably
transparent for writing. (FM also lacks many of them, but its GUI is
aimed at a different market entirely.)
The only thing I have ever seen that I thought would work apart from FM was
InterLeaf, but their UI drove me nuts.
ROTFL. When I was writing my book on SGML and XML Tools, I wrote to many
vendors to ask if I could have a review copy of their software. Some
marketing droid in Interleaf mailed me back to explain that XML was
actually rather complicated and difficult, and that I'd need a lot of
training in it to use Interleaf's XML features. Needless to say,
Interleaf did not feature in the book...
///Peter
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