TeX in the office, also for non-TeX-ies

Abstract

It is possible to deploy TeX in an office for preparing typical documents by employees who didn't even have heard of TeX.

A simple and functional user interface allows for a wider use of LaTeX documents in daily correspondence, offers or contracts. Batch processing allows combining with other programs (as printing support through pdf) and wrapping with different interfaces (GUI as a stand-alone application or a browser interface, both using TeX in the background).

Besides dedicated programs I will also mention the LyX editor which allows for an easy transition from the WYSIWYG world to the world of pretty documents. When describing the TeX-nical part of these solutions I will also present some observations regarding the “soft” part of the deployment (the employees attitide towards TeX), i.e., why it became a success.