For preparing a book, do you recommend the switching from Office to LATEX?
Note: the book's office version is prepared, but it seems that some issues like formulation and referencing is better in LaTex. Is this true?
Unless the issues totally prevent you from finalizing your book for publication, I agree with Ben: at this stage converting the book from Word to LaTeX would be too long and complex.
However, for the future, LaTeX is a much better choice than Word for any scientific publication.
Unless the issues totally prevent you from finalizing your book for publication, I agree with Ben: at this stage converting the book from Word to LaTeX would be too long and complex.
However, for the future, LaTeX is a much better choice than Word for any scientific publication.
I would recommend to use Latex if you were starting from scratch. I agree with Ben and Sabino, keep your office version for now. In your next manuscript, Latex will help a lot with references. Besides, formulae will look so much better.
LaTeX is not only a word processor, it is a type setting software and it does kerning, hyphenation and all the tricks used in professional publishing industry.
MS Word is suitable for speed small documents but LaTeX is faster for big documents with graphics. MS Word is easier to use than LaTeX. LaTeX has more scientific features. LaTeX is free of charge but office is a paid software. LaTeX has more layout quality than word.
So i Recommend you to use LaTeX.
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/what-is-indesign.html
heard of this?
@Saurabh: InDesign has nothing in common con LaTeX. With LaTeX (or Word, for what matters) you write a book or an article to be submitted to an editor/publisher. With InDesign a designer prepares the layout of the book once it has been accepted for publication and it is ready for printing (or to be published as an ebook, on the web, etc.).
Using InDesin for writing a publication is a waste of time, IMHO.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4798110_write-book-using-indesign.html
Textx can simply be imported ini indesign from word or text files.
Plus it is print ready.
No matter how you write your books designer and or editor are going to make blunders. If you design by ur own afterwords, y do it in two steps.
Organise chapters in words as its friendly and widespread.
for image composting labelling use indesign.
Word is easy but quality is compromised (secret feature of microsoft that everybody doent know yet)
and latex is too tough but no compromise in quality.
We even have made books using php and mysql which was very very procedural and the output was rendered in a charm as latex but the data entry was boring.
But I tell you In design is best and mid way to all these problems.
I fear that if you are not a designer, you cannot devise a professional-looking book. That is why LaTeX separates content from style.
As it seems you have already used InDesign, have you also tried to insert hundreds of equations, tables, images and plots, or cross-references, a detailed index, and things like that in your book(s)?
yup. indexing isnt possible in indesign. but is possible in php / mysql.
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