Non-math uses of LaTeX

Now that I'm no longer dealing with math very much, I suspect the main uses I expect to have for LaTeX are for documenting code — I have found the listings package most useful for for this — and for dealing with Chinese text — xeCJK is the best tool I have for Chinese typesetting right now, and it seems to be under active development.

The great utility of LaTeX for me as a coder is being able to format output from database dumps, to PDF. For the web, of course, normal HTML tools will do.

Journals in the humanities with which I have regular contact do not, on the whole, seem ready to accept articles composed in LaTeX.

Below is what I have been using for formatting Java code:

\usepackage{listings}
{style="font-size:9pt;"}

\lstset{
    language=Java,
    basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize,
    frame=lines,
    captionpos=b,
    tabsize=4,
    keywordstyle=\color{blue},
    commentstyle=\color{dark-green},
    stringstyle=\color{red},
    numbers=left,
    numberstyle=\tiny,
    numbersep=5pt,
    breaklines=true,
    showstringspaces=false
    }

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