RE: For The Typesetting Geeks

[Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Kari,

I've never used LaTex, and I don't know all that much about it, but I'd
imagine it holds some of the same charms for its users as XyWrite does
for us.

It's non-GUI, text-centric, and very powerful. But while XyWrite is a
word processor, LaTex is a composition engine; you markup (extensively)
your text and run it through the composer app and out comes a formatted
document. It outputs to PDF or DVI (which I've never heard of).

That's about all I know (and probably half of that is wrong).

-B

-----Original Message----- From: Kari Eveli

Brian,

I certainly belong to the typesetting geek crowd having worked a lot
with customized fonts and professional typography. I have never used
LaTeX, so please elaborate a bit. How do you go about to typeset a text
with it? And, more importantly, why would one choose LaTeX over InDesign
or Quark? OK, it is free. but besides that...

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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