Formatting a book

Hi to all,
this is my first post on this forum and i'm writing for some advices. I have to format a quite long book made of a series of separate short paragraph. Each paragraph should have a marginal note (a box containing numbers) and a title. Besides a section of this book should be written into two columns to show the parallel traslation from an original latin text into another language. It would be nice having running headers according to the section titles.
In totally new in usign adobe indesing but i've some experience in using latex. In your opinion is indesign suitable for this purpose? Would it take a reasonable amount of time learnig how to use indesign ?
Sorry for my english.
Thanks
Paul

The Adobe Help, which you can launch from the application is great help full of resources also (just uncheck "search Adobe content" when searching). It will lead you to several good webpages, related to the topics you need. The project you mention is totally doable, you should make yourself familiar with text-variables for the running headers and most importantly look at paragraph styles and how they work in InDesign. Then text-frames and their threading. InDesign is a pretty straight-forward program, when you know how to work with word processors or have experience in formatting. LaTex might be a bit off the hook, since it has a completely different approach to dealing with formatting (InDesign is much more usable).

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