Any use of LaTeX for self-publishing?

<< < (2/2)

kensanata:
In 2010 I did a little comparison for a small two page PDF I wanted to publish. I tried my wiki with appropriate styling (which is what I would have preferred), LaTeX, DocBook and Open Office (at the time). Open Office won. Friends suggested txt2tags and rst2pdf, both of which I was unfamiliar with.

The problem I have with LaTeX is that once I left university, all my skills atrophied. :(

zwrench:
Personally I'd rather go with the Microsoft Word and then Indesign route. Word is the best on the market for spell check/general text editing, and then Indesign works well as a WYSIWYG editor. The disadvantages of Indisign are that it has a steep learning curve, it's very expensive for hobbyists, and it is a hog for computing power compared to LaTex or Word or OpenOffice. I wish that there were an open source competitor that could even come close to stacking up to Indesign's features, but I've yet to see one.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page