LaTeX for PDF generation in production

Question

I used LaTeX for writing couple of white papers while I was in grad school. From that I have a really good impression about it in terms of what LaTeX allows user to do, espe

Answer 1

I have done various production PDF implementations using TeX. I ended up abandoning LaTeX, and went with ConTeXt (see also Context Garden).

There is a very active mailing list, it is used extensively for document production, and there is a nice minimal distribution for various Unixes, Windows and Mac OS X. There is no need for Cygwin on Windows (although you do need Ruby).

I find ConTeXt approach to TeX cleaner than LaTeX, but that might just be me.