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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Odd, that. I'd always thought that "the industry" would appreciate LaTeX for its strengths over those WYSIWYG-type things. Admittedly LaTeX doesn't have a very up-to-date (or widely adopted) IDE, but still.
Oh, well. Another myth dispelled.
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I've probably been around for ten or fifteen thousand books. One was done in TeX (a computer science author who insisted). I think the vast majority of trade books are now done in InDesign; it used to be almost all Quark. Some college textbooks are done in fancier systems like 3B2 or Arbortext, but trade publishers are used to total control over everything. They will complain about the justification of a single line, so it's much easier to deal with that kind of thing in a WYSIWYG environment.
If it was up to me, I'd use XSL-FO!
Dave