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Re:Book Publishers seldom use Latex, Docbook, etc.

Posted by: lahvak on February 01, 2006 12:33 PM
Changing margins in LaTeX? Lets see:

\usepackage[left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in<nobr>]<wbr></nobr> {geometry}

In a wordprocessor, you would have to fill in exactly the same information in some dialog box.

Working in Unicode? Modern TeX distro like MacTeX will do that pretty much transparently, you don't really have to do anything special.

Embedding eps files? What's that hard about
\includegraphics[width=2in]{file.eps}

I agree that tables in LaTeX are not very flexible, you would probably be better off with ConTeXt. If you want flexibility and control, but still prefer a TeX type markup language, ConTeXt is definitely the way to go.

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