Linked by Alcibiades on Tue 20th Dec 2005 18:40 UTC
In order to see what is needed in book writing applications, you need
to look carefully at the desk of someone who is actively writing a
book. You will most likely see piles of paper, often cut up and marked
with pencil, and if you examine those of the papers that are in piles,
you will see that the pagination is all over the place because pages
have been reordered. Read on...
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On the other hand, while I dearly love LaTeX, I'd much rather see an author concentrate on writing content, rather than spending the weeks it'd take to learn what he'd need to know about LaTeX.
Well, it took me one afternoon to get the first 30 pages of my thesis from OpenOffice to TeX. Main reason to do that was that I was wasting too much time fighting the way OpenOffice dealt with embedded images. TeX produced an excellent layout without me even worrying about layout at all, instead focussing on the content.