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Is LaTeX only for academic papers? I have a client who needs to put a large volume of brochure-ready technical specifications on both the web and rendered as a
by rwhitman 14y ago
Is LaTeX only for academic papers?
I have a client who needs to put a large volume of brochure-ready technical specifications on both the web and rendered as attractive downloadable as PDFs, in a hopefully machine-readable format. Really curious if LaTeX is ever used as a solution in commercial applications where business users are most familiar with word - or is that the wrong application?
- ppereira 14y agoI once did this for a client that needed spec sheets with unit-specific test data from a database. LaTeX is great because it is easy to generate programmatically. Making nice PDFs is easy. Exporting to HTML via htlatex is possible, but may require a lot of fine-tuning. Depending on the content, it may be easier to generate the LaTeX/PDF and HTML separately, or to generate only parts of the HTML using htlatex. LaTeX special symbols are much easier to use than UTF8. It is easier to type -- and be sure that you have properly entered -- en-dashes, non-breaking spaces, fractions, degree symbols, directional quotation marks, and other non-keyboard characters.
- InformalRelief 14y agoIt is certainly not only for academic papers. See [this thread](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40720/latex-in-industry http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40720/latex-in-indust...) for example. But it may not be suitable in the environment you describe, the learning curve could be too steep for "business users [...] familiar with word". It could work however if they only need to edit something you built and are at least capable of editing html.