On 1/7/2022 6:25 PM, hanneder--- via ntg-context wrote:
Probably the situation in South Asian Studies (Indology) is peculiar.
As I indicated, there are mostly no budgets for book typesetting in
Indology and
I know of no real expert for typesetting in this field. In other words,
the authors
have do it themselves, usually in Word etc., but some do use TeX etc.
Our publications
series (Indologica Marpurgensia) is, for instance, all done with LaTeX,
as are my publications
with Harrassowitz, which is the largest publisher in our field in
Germany. There is no institution
offering typesetting of Sanskrit editions, because there is no
commercial interest in it and I
think there is no expertise for this (especially when Indian scripts are
used instead of transliteration).
there was a time that publishers had some pride in offering low volume
publications and paid for that by large volume succes stories ... but
those were real publishers (persons, not companies)
Journals are different. Indological journals published by Brill use TeX
internally, which is convenient,
but most others know only Word (->InDesign). That is the situation,
frustrating in a way, but it also
gives some freedom for using TeX (and, sadly, creating one's own
dilettantic designs).
that brings me to the question:
what do those who are independent from publishers really
want in a typeseting system .. not bound by what a specific
publisher with no real interest but profit demands
i'm often puzzled by the fact that in spite of what technology (and
thereby tex) makes possible is not used to its full extend .. (my
favourite exmaple: why go along the troublesome accessibility path
instead of providing plenty variants that suit specific users and
publish the sources so that those interested in it can do it ...
interestingly easy audio inclusion was dropped from pdf instead of
adding means to attach that to a stretch of text) .. i think publishers
were never really interested in those things (no reserch lab anyway)
so ... what features would make *you* happy if you didn't have to take
publishing (which doesn't happen) and tradition (imposed by those who
don't publish your work anyway) into account but could produce the best
for your reader
Hans
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