Am 17.11.2013 05:08, schrieb john Culleton: > Although the various versions of TeX are not as > handy for creating magazines or coffee table > books compared to Scribus I think you > underestimate the ability of e.g., Context to > format pages. Specifically Context MKIV uses > Unicode as a default and multilingual support > including right to left languages is available. > The handling of graphics, while not nearly as > handy as Scribus, is available. There are TeX > user groups all over the globe including China. Hello John,
thanks for your reply. I have used Xetex at some point which uses Unicode natively (and is already a huge improvement over standard Latex), but I still think that Latex is a little bit old fashioned. I know that almost any formatting is possible, but the problem is the work in order to do that: I guess for graphics it is usually much easier than just do it in WYSIWYG style: Just arrange the graphics as you want them to. Of course, Latex has the advantage that development can go into the rendering engine and not into a GUI. A combination of a markup language like Tex and a DTP software like Scribus would have the advantage of using both parts where they are best suited: Writing longer documents in Tex and more free designing in a DTP software. Well, this is just my personal opinion. I like Latex, too, but I would gladly change it for a more (in my opinion) modern approach.
