On Sep 02 2009 (Wed, 14:04), Sebastian Stark wrote: > > On 02.09.2009, at 13:56, QUINTIN Guillaume wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Do you guys know a (working) typesetting system other than latex ? > > troff is definitely working and different from latex. Don't know if it's > useful for general typesetting. There people who use it: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/19.memacros/paper.pdf > >> And a good soft to make presentations ? > > magicpoint: > > http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/ > > > Sebastian > >
checkout troff/groff and lout. both are very well capable of typesetting publishing quality books if need be (including tables graphics, equations ...). both are _much_ smaller than a TeX installation. troff is more 'low level' than (La)TeX, even when using the existing macro packages (I use 'ms'). lout is much more high level but it seems not to be in widespread use (?) and is (according to my view) producing slightly inferior output (too tight interword spacing). troff/groff at least has a reasonable active mailing list. joerg
