I've seen much more beautifully crafted books in Latex, compared to that. Another (free-software) solution, embraced by people like Andrew Tanenbaum, is GNU Tr

I've seen much more beautifully crafted books in Latex, compared to that. Another (free-software) solution, embraced by people like Andrew Tanenbaum, is GNU Troff (http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/).