William R. Buckley schrieb:
Don't know what a *nomenclature* is with regard to publishing.
I meant the glossaries.
As for the others, like bibliographies and indexes, yes, Ventura Publisher handles these quite well.
Interesting. I once tested out Framemaker which seems to be very similar to Ventura. The problem there was the bibliography: In scientific papers you have a lot of references, so you use databases to collect and insert them. But every publisher has its own bibliography format style, so that sending a manuscript to different publishers is a nightmare when you cannot change the bibliography format style with a few mouse clicks.
What I like with LaTeX are its powerful math and bibliography capabilities and that you can change every time the layout of the document. I can even take a document that I usually print in A4, set its page margin to A5 or whatever and get a nearly ready to print document, becase LateX does the recalculations for me, including the image placements. This is useful when producing books as you don't always know the exact book page size while typesetting.
Like I suggested, Ventura Publisher would alone be sufficient to produce the Encyclopedia Britannica, and quickly so. I take it that experienced LyX users would say the same about LyX.
Of course you can reach the goal to typeset books in different ways. LaTeX is only one of them. regards Uwe
