Am 04.08.2011 17:45, schrieb andrel:

[TeX]
>> and it most certainly
>> does /not/ handle styling or customisation of any kind!
>
> It most certainly does. Style files are are at the heart of the system.
> As a small comparison: a friend of mine had written her thesis in Word,
> after her text was accepted by the committee she needed 3 weeks of hard
> work to convert it from an A4 draft version into a paperback format text
> that she could submit to the printer. I did it, with the help of a
> student, in one evening. And I had different layouts for chapters
> depending on whether it was published before or not.
>
...
> If you mean debugging style files or bibstyle files you are correct,
> that is a nightmare if you don't know what you are doing. Simple advise:
> don't touch them.

 From what I managed to glimpse from TeX so far, it is a great tool for 
scientific publications - that, and absolutely nothing else.

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