I have used InDesign to do books, for many years (basically since it first came out). Once you know how it is fine, and I just typeset a book of my own for publication (one of those academic press jobbies that make you do your own art), and InDesign was beautiful, handling (with an OpenType Pro font) all Greek and math I put into it.
But for the math I use LaTeXiT (on the Mac) which involves using a full install of LaTeX anyway. It's not a problem - the result is a nice PDF that is dynamically linked back to the LaTeXiT equation.
Incidentally, Adobe borrowed many of the Framemaker technologies, but Fm lacks the OpenType engine ID has. Yes, FM was great, but it's not true ID can't be used for long documents.
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I have used InDesign to do books, for many years (basically since it first came out). Once you know how it is fine, and I just typeset a book of my own for publication (one of those academic press jobbies that make you do your own art), and InDesign was beautiful, handling (with an OpenType Pro font) all Greek and math I put into it. But for the math I use LaTeXiT (on the Mac) which involves using a full install of LaTeX anyway. It's not a problem - the result is a nice PDF that is dynamically linked back to the LaTeXiT equation. Incidentally, Adobe borrowed many of the Framemaker technologies, but Fm lacks the OpenType engine ID has. Yes, FM was great, but it's not true ID can't be used for long documents.