Back when I did composition for STEM publishers, the one manuscript I got in LyX stands out as the cleanest, and easiest to work with --- added two custom packages:
- first loads some packages and defines all the customization commands to do nothing
- second defines the customization commands and applies the formatting as specified by the publisher
Edit the LaTeX text, add customization commands for shortening/lengthening paragraphs, &c. for balancing pages and tweaking float placement --- make PDF, send to printer, then at the end of the project, comment out the second package line and return the updated source to the author for their next edition.
- first loads some packages and defines all the customization commands to do nothing
- second defines the customization commands and applies the formatting as specified by the publisher
Edit the LaTeX text, add customization commands for shortening/lengthening paragraphs, &c. for balancing pages and tweaking float placement --- make PDF, send to printer, then at the end of the project, comment out the second package line and return the updated source to the author for their next edition.
That said, my current books are being done using:
- GitBook: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/2d-drawing
- using Literate Programming completely in lualatex for coding up the OpenPythonSCAD module: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
- in normal LaTeX (re-setting of a translation of an Old English poem)
and I look forward to a future project working in LyX, since the new 2.4 looks _amazing_.