Comment by radarsat1

I ask this as a totally naive person regarding novels and publishing, but who is fairly happy with writing papers in Latex: what is difficult about typesetting a novel? I ask because I would think that novels would be on the easier end of typesetting situations, but clearly your experience is different.. I just can't imagine what you are struggling with. I've "typeset" many novels by converting them from text formats to latex for the purpose of reading on my e-reader and haven't had many difficulties other than dealing with unsupported character encodings. Of course I can imagine that the professional situation is quite difficult, but I'm surprised it's so different. Care to share details of the trouble you had?