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Ambush Commander
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LaTeX

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I've been experimenting with LaTeX lately, and I'm considering switching all my text documents over to it (on virtue that I can actually version .tex files, versus .doc or .odt which are binary formats and XHTML which is a pain to write and offers very little control for traditional paper). I'm already familiar with TeX's superb math formatting facilities from MediaWiki, and noticed that a few of the posts in this forum where about integrating LaTeX to print mathematical formulas.

So... I was wondering whether or not if any of you people have had experience with LaTex, whether you swear by it, whether you tried it but it didn't work out, etc. For now, it seems to be serving me quite well as long as I don't stray into the realm of macro programming...
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I like it. I don't use it often, but when I have to write math equations, it comes in handy. :)
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Definitely :D It also works for Chemistry, but not as well.

However, I'm not sure if I just been pushed into believing it because of all the documentation I've read, but LaTeX output seems to look prettier. This can be a plus, because I'm planning on writing all my documentation in it (and then converting to pdf and html)
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Anyone tried Docbook XML?
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Sounds like it's for long documents...
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DocBook rocks. Transform to Multiple linked HTML pages, PDF, and other formats. Auto Table of contents and indices, all linked up in both HTML and PDF. We actually maintain XHTML documents in dreamweaver and run scripts on them to transform them to DocBook XML without a hitch and then to HTML and PDF and use Oracle text for searching. Actually do diffs of old versions as well, kinda slow initially but it caches the diffs after they run, haven't perfected that yet.

I think a couple of Open Source projects use it for their manuals. I've never tried LaTeX, does it provide similar advantages?

http://www.odu.edu/ao/facultyhandbook/
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