Dana Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:48:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
 napis'o:
> 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

True. But every book that needs your attention on every page... is
not a book I would like to read. :)
LaTeX forces me to structure the whole thing. To lay it out and see
the content. If I need figures or tables, I reference these and let
LaTeX decide where to put them to make the text flow.
I rarely have to intervene. And the text flows.
Well... Knuth did it right with TeX. And huge amounts of packages did
the rest.

And it does what you tell it to do. No "AI" in it.
I hate "AI" in text processors. :)

> 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
>

True. I prefere LibreOffice over M$. LibreOffice was done with
nonEnglish users in mind. And it works great!

> I use Scribus for adverts and brochures and the like where page

In case of posters and things like that I use Inkscape.

> 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

Yeah. That's it. Every tools has a purpose. You can write .svg
in vim, but it's easier to do that visually in Inkscape. :)
But I do write .html in vim. :)
It's again all about the document structure.

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