On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:54:57 +0000
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> Doesn't do drop caps, automatic index, illustrations, and emphasised text.

 Sure it does, you just have to use the right markup.

> >> Even vim is enought to write any book in LaTeX.
> >
> I wouldn't write a book in Latex, either

 There's plenty of books written in LaTeX it's not a bad option,
better than troff in many ways - but both were designed for the job of
producing books and they're pretty good at it. These day's I'd be more
inclined to use docbook and forget all about the layout until print time.

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