RE: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage [Was: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and InDesign]

2010-06-15 Thread Tim Arnold
quality, no matter the technical content of the document. --Tim -Original Message- From: Ivan Ristic [mailto:ivan.ris...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:26 AM To: Giuseppe Bonelli Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage

Re: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage [Was: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and InDesign]

2010-06-15 Thread Giuseppe Bonelli
: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:26 AM To: Giuseppe Bonelli Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage [Was: Re: [docbook- apps] DocBook and InDesign] On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Giuseppe Bonelli peppo.bone...@gmail.com wrote: ... Hi

Re: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage [Was: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and InDesign]

2010-06-15 Thread Jirka Kosek
Tim Arnold wrote: I can't imagine someone needing higher typographic quality than that. Wouldn't that bypass the problem of fo, indesign, antennahouse et al.? In my experience the DBLaTeX workflow is very high quality, no matter the technical content of the document. TeX as well FO work in

RE: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage [Was: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and InDesign]

2010-06-15 Thread honyk
FYI: Nice overview of InDesign capabilities: http://www.scribd.com/doc/238960/Adobe-InDesign-InDepth-Typography Some of them aren't available even in TeX. Many of them are patented. Lucky are those who can't recognize the difference ;-) Unfortunately I can. Regards, Jan

Re: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage [Was: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and InDesign]

2010-06-15 Thread Dave Pawson
I've always been curious as to the possibility of 'finishing off' a paper output in a layout environment. InDesign is very popular with publishers and hence makes a fair target. Is there any way the docbook xsl-fo output could help users of indesign to do this 'finishing off'? Not having used

Re: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage [Was: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and InDesign]

2010-06-15 Thread maxwell
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