On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:14:57AM +0000, b.n. wrote: > JimD wrote: > > I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do book > > writers use? I hope not a word processor. I am only working with small > > books and it is a pain to have to deal with layout. > > They use LaTeX. If you plan to write books/articles/whatever in > publishing quality, THIS is the answer.
LaTeX is awesome if you're not going to be diverging from the builtin document layout styles too much. If you are then you're likely going to be editing raw TeX to get things done, and unfortunately though TeX is very clean and very good at what it does it's not a language that's easy to understand. Some (more or less) alternatives to TeX are (some of which have ebuilds already): http://www.pragma-ade.com/ (ConTeXt) http://lout.sourceforge.net/ http://www.cliki.net/cl-typesetting http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/nonpareil/ BTW, I'm kind of excited Thomas has decided to legacy teTeX. I hope gentoo adopts a CTAN interface like g-cpan is for CPAN. At least because modular is the buzzword du jour. (-: Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
