Jirka Kosek <ji...@kosek.cz> wrote: > TeX as well FO work in batch mode -- you can't interactively fiddle with > details like line and page breaks and object placement and instantly see > changes on-screen. This necessary especially for document with "more > artistic" design.
There are LaTeX editors that allow you to do this via a two-pane editor, with the LaTeX editor in one pane and a PDF view in the other. LEd is an example: http://www.latexeditor.org I've never used such an editor, so I can't vouch for whether it is "instant." Perhaps one could create such a DocBook editor. (XMLmind allows you to work in a partially wysiwyg environment, although they're quick to point out that it's very partial; and it certainly doesn't allow low-level fiddling.) > Also I'm not sure whether pdfTeX implementation of hz-algorithm and > hanging punctuation is on a par with one available in InDesign. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hz-program > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_punctuation XeTeX (a Unicode-enabled version of LaTeX) has an experimental implementation of "character protrusion" or "margin kerning" (new in the last few months). Not being a typographer (I almost wrote "typologist", an area that I do claim to know a little about!), I'm not sure how much that answers your question. Perhaps more relevant, there is a discussion thread here: http://scripts.sil.org/xetex about the relative uses and merits of Xe(La)TeX and InDesign. Some of the points would also pertain to DocBook in general. Mike Maxwell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
