> Yet, it remains one of the most > powerful and cheapest typesetting systems to date. "Cheap" in terms of initial investment -- surely, as it's open-source and free.
"Cheap" in terms of implementing -- not quite so, because you need to format your sources in a very specific, "isolated" syntax. I initially tried to implement TeX in some projects of my own, and switched to Prince XML (http://princexml.com/ ) I found it much easier to start with, as it takes HTML or XML + Unicode + CSS + SVG/bitmaps + OpenType fonts as input, executes JavaScript during processing, has a rather high-quality, constantly improving line-breaking algorithm, and produces reliable PDFs. Some aspects of it are not quite as powerful as TeX's, but other aspects greatly surpass TeX -- especially in terms of ease of use and quick implementation while maintaining acceptably high quality. So I ended up with Prince XML as my tool of choice because it natively supports my "preferred input formats", i.e. the web formats. A commercial server license costs 3800 USD, which may sound like a lot, but I found it a fair price to pay for the comfort of being able to use my content directly and without much debugging/converting/fine-tuning. Best, Adam -- May success attend your efforts, -- Adam Twardoch (Remove "list." from e-mail address to contact me directly.) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
