On Feb 17, 2010, at 6:12 PM, Cyril Niklaus wrote: > > 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).
I should have been more explicit... It's not an issue of making words look good on a page... that I can still manage using the above tools. We're looking for an application that will allow a casual user to create a photo book. Something akin to publishing an album from iPhoto. Thanks for the ideas so far. M -- Milo Velimirović Unix Network Administrator - ITS Network Services 608-785-6618 Office - 608-386-2817 Cell University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W -- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
