Re: (La)TeX for a conlanger? Advice sought.

As a general note, there is also the LaTeX for Conlangers mailing
list, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/latex-for-conlangers/.

Emaelivpeith And Rosta:
> (i) works a lot with truetype & unicode fonts,
> (ii) is a typography fetishist,
LaTeX addresses both of these points, and and is especially well-known
for its superior typography. Your "ff fl fi" ligatures are correctly
handled with LaTeX. :)

> (iii) loathes the frustrations of trying to get complicated software to work correctly or at all.
> (iv) is reluctant to learn lots of elaborate & radically new ways of doing old familiar things;
These two points are where LaTeX may give you trouble. There do exist
WYSIWYG editors for LaTeX, which may help you feel at home with LaTeX.
The only one I've ever installed to take a look at was LyX
(http://www.lyx.org/). Installation instructions for Windows are here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136. Note that it does require or
recommend that several other things to be installed first: MinSys,
Python, MikTex, Perl, Ghostscript, and ImageMagick.

For myself, I like using a plain text editor and the command-line to
do my LaTeXing, but that's just my own personal preference. :)

Good luck with whatever you choose!


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