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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?
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?
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.
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You might be interested in pandoc: it allows you to write your documents in LaTeX or Markdown and then it can automatically convert it to docx, odt, html, LaTeX, Markdown, and more. For straigtforward[0] documents this works great. [0] documents containing text, headings, notes, figures, tables, code listings, mathematics, hyperlinks, lists, references.
Interesting, thanks for pointing out the updated version of what "straightforward" means. Last time I looked at Markdown you couldn't do a lot of things I needed in it, such as figures, footnotes, and references, so I didn't give it very serious consideration. But it looks like pandoc has extended the original Markdown into some kind of Markdown++, which covers just about everything I usually need.
pandoc text.md --parse-raw -t latex -o text.tex
As I've recently been looking at writing up a CV with LaTeX, I've seen quite a few rather awful templates -- and the site happens to list both examples of the worst and best I found after a quick search on CTAN...
For others that are interested -- the best resource I've found so far is actually a nice blog series on using the article-class for CV:
http://www.texdev.net/2011/11/05/writing-a-curriculum-vitae-...
Also worth a read (but cover much of the same):
http://texblog.org/2012/04/25/writing-a-cv-in-latex/
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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 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?
Permit me to be coarse for the sake of simplicity and tell you that the only LaTeX template you should spend your time and energy on is tufte-latex: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1572530 . It even has a snazzy guide for setting it up on Stack Exchange: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/setting-up-a-lat... . It’s pretty much all you need, and configuring LaTeX can turn into a rabbit hole you will never…