Re:If you have a publisher, ask them. (Score 1)

Ditto the original posters comments. I don't know about "most publishers," but I am about to undertake a 500 page technical manual, and the publisher has so far told me that the one stipulation is that I agree to use their Word based template. For me, using M$ at work all the time, it will make my life easier to use a familiar tool whose features I know very well. On the other hand, it won't encourage me to use a new tool, which is often half the fun of undertaking a project.