What about MarsEdit 2 [for a Mac], Dom?
Just heard about it yest'day; haven't tried its 'free 30-day trial!' or
bounced it opinionly off anybody, but it was strongly recommended by a savvy
computer wonk who writes books about using computers. She said it can be
got thru: http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/
Best,
Judy
2008/11/28 Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
> Disclaimer: I don't know the first thing about typesetting. But I do
> know one or two things about Linux.
>
> I would suggest taking a look at LyX, which makes LaTeX document
> authoring quite a lot easier. Using LaTeX directly will certainly give
> you a lot of control, and is capable of producing very attractive
> output, although you may wonder whether it's worth the pain. You can
> convert DVI (LaTeX's "native" output format) to PostScript fairly
> easily, which ought to make your printers happy.
>
> OpenOffice itself may be up to the task of formatting pages as you
> wish, with a bit of work - I believe it can export to PDF.
>
> I believe Douglas Clark used a LaTeX system on Windows to typeset his
> last two self-published books, both of which came out very well I
> thought.
>
> Dominic
>
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