LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD


Pollen is described as 'Publishing system that helps authors create beautiful and functional web-based books. Pollen includes tools for writing, designing, programming, testing, and publishing' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are six alternatives to Pollen for Linux, Mac, Windows and BSD. The best Pollen alternative is LaTeX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pollen are Groff, SILE, DocBook and ConTeXt (Typesetting System).
LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.


The groff (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output.
SILE is a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign, but seeks to be more flexible, extensible and programmable than them.
DocBook is a schema (available in several languages including RELAX NG, SGML and XML DTDs, and W3C XML Schema) maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no...
“a system for typesetting documents based on TEX and METAPOST. You can use this system for converting documents coded in TEX format as well as documents coded in XML into high quality PDF” (http://www.pragma-ade.nl/)