On Tuesday 28 May 2002 20:17, Kevin Bullock wrote: > Second example: creating a professional-quality document. I'll leave > Word out of this discussion because the only way to create a > professional-quality document in Word is to beat your head against it > for a really long time. Instead, consider LaTeX vs. InDesign. Which is > easier? Having worked extensively with both, I can tell you, InDesign > is. (Also a lot more expensive. I keep toying with the idea of writing a > free (GUI) page layout program that uses TeX for a backend.) Have you considered contributing to LyX? I have never played with InDesign, but so far, LyX is as close as you can come to a Free GUI for LaTeX. Of course, it is not strictly a "page layout" program since it's WYMIWYG. Actually, one of my gripes with LyX is that any time you want to so something just a little bit different, you need to resort to LaTeX commands, but the developers are working at making LyX support more LaTeX packages out of the box. :Peter