Rich
I think this is a marketing thing, I have been to too many
meetings where,
the people making the decisions, are impressed by how a report
looks more
than what the report says.
Graham,
Yes, there are too many people for whom appearance is more
important than
is content. I don't want that type for clients.
I am less fussy ;-) But really, often the people making the
decisions aren't really the client, they just get involved at signing
off a contract but have nothing to do with the job, you are just
making it easy for the real client to get the consultant they want.
I suspect that Lyx will do what I need but, I agree this is a good
option,
and I am using Scribus for a newsletter
If you look at The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Ed, you'll find a lot of
help in
setting up fancy title pages, chapter header pages, running headers
and
footers, and more. Also, the KOMA and Memoir classes have more
flexibility
(and capabilities) than do the standard classes. Read the docs on
them to
see if either is useful for you.
I have been using The Koma classes for several things as it is meant
to be more geared towards European documents. Certainly I found the
letter class to work well. I have a couple of books on Latex so I
will have a look.
Springer provided their own monograph class so that's what I used
for my book.
I regret that we have done both our books for Springer in Word.
A suggestion: when you have a layout that is to be your standard
for that
type of document, empty a copy and save that as a template. I get
lazy and
just rename one file to the new one, then make the appropriate content
changes. It works for me.
Yes, that will be the plan.
Graham
