Comment e-TeX (Score 1) 583
I have been most impressed with extended plain TeX. It offers some niceties that plain TeX does not offer, but is not nearly as controlling and pigeon-holing as LaTeX. I don't know of any good, integrated tools out there for UNIX systems, other than maybe Emacs (what doesn't Emacs do?) but a few scripts go a long way. As far as documentation, The TeX-book is the bible, and a search on Google for tutorials provided me with a fair amount of good material. The learning curve? Well, I was able to produce some decent stuff after a day, much better stuff after a week, and it just got better after that.
However, keep in mind that TeX is limited. It only can only render text horizontally (no rotations) and it can't render graphics itself. Postscript is needed for that. Also, translation to HTML can be iffy with a lot of equations or symbols or things of that sort.
However, keep in mind that TeX is limited. It only can only render text horizontally (no rotations) and it can't render graphics itself. Postscript is needed for that. Also, translation to HTML can be iffy with a lot of equations or symbols or things of that sort.
