On 18 févr. 10, at 08:45, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 16:17, Mark Smith > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You can make excellent books with LaTeX, or ConTeXt. Both are free >> but >> need a fair bit of set-up and knowledge of file structure and >> commands. >> There have been a number of attempts to make a GUI Environment for >> LaTeX, some of them were free, but none of them were ever really >> good IMO. > > I have to say that LaTeX may seem daunting, but is pretty quick to get > up and running. There will be the fine details that lead into longer > searching or tweaks, but overall I was able to get the majority of my > formatting done quite quickly.
And if you want to use the nice fonts Apple bundles with OS X, use XeTeX (or XeLaTeX) since it makes it a breeze. I also second the ease of use of LaTeX once you've got the basics down and don't plan on doing anything fancy (in which case, the TeX newsgroups/ mailing lists are full of helpful people). _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
