I've been using Latex for a while now, and loving it, even if I'm not doing anything that involves mathematics. There is a learning curve, but I don't believe it's as steep as some make it sound to be. Docbook is nice, but I find typing (SG | X)ML slow and painful. My recommendation would be Latex hands down. J-F On 2011-02-16, at 10:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > >> I recently completed a 313 page book using Latex. The learning cost >> is heavy, but the rewards are too. >> >> Latex is also used by a lot of technical / scientific publishers. >> I've a paper in process at the moment. Style sheet supplied. >> Bibliographic support is strong, but again needs learning. >> >> There are also recent developments in what is termed "reproducible >> research" to allow code to be embedded in Latex. We use this to >> write articles where the statistics (procedures and data) may >> change. Running special scripts in Sweave and ODFweave allow latex >> and/or OpenOffice docs to be processed to finished pdf. There are >> apparently other initiatives like this, but they suggest a useful >> way to incorporate code and data into documents that avoid copy and >> paste errors. > > if what i was writing involved mathematics in any way, latex would > be my first choice. but there won't be so i'm not going down that > road. i'll stick with something based on docbook, i just want to know > who is doing that sort of thing on a *production* basis, and how it's > working out for them. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux