On 16/02/2021 12:16, Nikolaj Lazic wrote:
> Dana Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:09:02 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 
napis'o:
>>  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.
>
> That is exactly my point. Final layout is just the final step after
> structuring your tekst. And LaTeX does that really nice.
> Just few corrections and that's it.
>
yup. Latex is ok for tech stuff. But you can use page layout stuff like
scribus ...I am writing a book in Libre office, because it has just
enough features to do the job I want to do and its free, and I never
used Latex enough to be handy with it, and Scribus is overkill

I use Scribus for adverts and brochures and the like where page
presentation is important. Geany for code. Lire office for not too
technical docs and books and pluma for unstructured plain text.
For editing config files on non GUI clients vi or joe.

*shrug* i ain't got religion, just a selection of imperfect tools


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