Re: Book Publishers seldom use Latex, Docbook, etc.
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 172.18.31.8]
on September 05, 2007 08:13 PM
I do not know much about publishing, but I believe LaTeX and Docbook users are not focusing on book design, but on composing. Actually, I use LaTeX a lot and have used Docbook and I agree it is hard doing some sophisticated formatting with these formats - but that is the question. When I write LaTeX, I do not intend to think about formatting, but just about content. Later I export to some PDF, ODF etc. and the editor formats it, since he does it better than me.
Anyway, although I do not like WYSIWYG editors for composing, a lot of people do not understand more content-focused formats, and OpenOffice.org Write is perfect for them. I have used its styles, and it is great. The problem is that more "mundane" writers do not use even the styles...
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Re: Book Publishers seldom use Latex, Docbook, etc.
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 172.18.31.8] on September 05, 2007 08:13 PMI do not know much about publishing, but I believe LaTeX and Docbook users are not focusing on book design, but on composing. Actually, I use LaTeX a lot and have used Docbook and I agree it is hard doing some sophisticated formatting with these formats - but that is the question. When I write LaTeX, I do not intend to think about formatting, but just about content. Later I export to some PDF, ODF etc. and the editor formats it, since he does it better than me.
Anyway, although I do not like WYSIWYG editors for composing, a lot of people do not understand more content-focused formats, and OpenOffice.org Write is perfect for them. I have used its styles, and it is great. The problem is that more "mundane" writers do not use even the styles...
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