On Wednesday 12 January 2011 12:59:40 Lukasz Jastrzebski wrote: > Gregory! > So I left with LaTeX and Scribus. > Both "should work" theoretically. And LaTeX will never be easy for > potential contributors or indie developers. > I should note that there are many forms of TeX. LaTeX, the most popular version, is optimized for academic books and papers. It is difficult to manipulate once you get out of that area. Other versions of TeX have broader targets. I have used plain pdftex for everything from serially numbered armbands to novels. I use Context for complicated technical manuals with illos and tables.
In general you can do almost anything with almost any piece of software. I get book covers prepared in PowerPoint for example. But there are horses for courses and for a project like yours I would look at a version of TeX other than LaTeX. Contributors to TeX, past and present, must number in the hundreds, perhaps the thousands. Most of these are "indie developers". TeX is old enough to have many books written about it. Scribus has just one so far plus my e-book AFAIK. So the resources are there for learners. TeX is a tagged input program, much like html. In html you can say "Hello world!" thus: <html> <body> Hello world! </body> </html> In plain pdftex you could do it thus: Hello world! \bye LaTeX has more folderol before getting down to cases. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
