Title: Designing with LaTeX Date: 2008-10-28 09:28 Author: OSP Tags: Works, In the pipeline, LaTex Slug: designing-with-latex Status: published **Designing with TeX: episode I** ![]({filename}/images/uploads/vj101.jpg "vj101"){: .float }OSP is currently working on a book containing essays, interviews and images following from the Constant festival/seminar [**Tracks in electronic fields**](http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?rubrique46) and we are laying it out in [LaTeX](http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html)! LaTeX is a tool developed in the context of academic publishing, specifically for technical or scientific documents. It combines markup à la CSS with powerful algorithms automatizing widow / orphan control and intelligent image placement. We've grown more and more interested in LaTeX because it is specifically developed for typographically sane paper publications, and as far as you can get from regular canvas-based typesetting. We are also curious to experience from up close the sophisticated typographic system developed by [Donald Knuth](http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/). ![]({filename}/images/uploads/fetchphp.png "fetchphp"){: .float } How will we be able to design with LaTeX? Will we need to change our workflow? Space for experiment and playing around? Can we use the design patterns built in to the tool, in another context? Will the book 'look-and-feel' like a scientific publication in the end?