Document Classes ⇒ Newbie asking for advice

[bizzymunky]

I've never used Latex. I'm considering whether or not to use Latex for a project. My wife would like to print thousands of recipes on 4"X6" cardstock for her new business. We don't want to spend a lot of money on it. Our laser printer does a great job of printing on it, so I was considering just printing them myself.

My questions is: is this a good idea? Since I don't know latex, I'm worried it may take much longer to learn than anticipated. Any opinions? Would latex even work for 4X6 cards?

Thanks!

[localghost]

[...] My questions is: is this a good idea? Since I don't know latex, I'm worried it may take much longer to learn than anticipated. Any opinions? Would latex even work for 4X6 cards? [...]

Honestly said, no. It's not worth learning a relatively complicated mark-up language for such a project. And as you mentioned yourself this is not done overnight. Even if you accomplish things like page page layout, you still have to learn LaTeX basic syntax, which takes its time.

In principal LaTeX supports this sort of typesetting. There are some so called document classes that allow to typeset some kind of cards [1]. But I think that you would do better with Word or OpenOffice.org Writer using some templates available somewhere in the world wide web.

[1] The TeX Catalogue Online, Topic Index


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[bizzymunky]

Thank you very much for the information. I'll not use LaTex!

Thanks again!