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."
Weeks? Why would it take weeks? What on earth would they be trying to learn that would take more than ten minutes? It would still be a sadly impractical choice but not for learning curve reasons. Perhaps someone may write a literary extension like the musical musitex.