On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:30:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > To be fair I am operating out a large measure of ignorance. One of my > main concerns is that the typesetting languages are languages. I'm sure > they're robust but I have always seen their use tied to another editor. Since > an outside editor is required it is my impression that there is no WYSIWYG, no > way to get a basic view of how it might look printed outside of actually doing > whatever magic it is to send it off to a printer. Which I don't have. Kile and Lyx may be for you. > Also the end result of my labor will be to send this out to be published. > I have seen many publishers take submissions in Word, plain text or printed > out. I've yet to see one accept LaTeX. So without a printer I am stuck with > transforming what I want into an acceptable format and plain text won't so. I > am using some formatting. Nothing fancy, noting that will cause formatting > inconsistencies. But just enough that plain text is unacceptable. I am actually a bit surprised. Numerous scientific books are written in TeX. In fact, Dr. Knuth's own books are typeset in TeX, which is what eh created TeX for. Besides, I am really surprised publishers won't want TeX, since a lot of books I've read have acklowledged that they were written in TeX. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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