At 09:20 PM 7/6/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: >The specific feature I most miss from my typesetting days is auto-tabs.
Mark, this was a very interesting post -- but I think we mean different things by "typesetting", believe it or not. I gather that you're talking about things which you had on the Compugraphic, but when I think of typesetting I think of setting actual type -- that is, hand composition. When I said that Quark was as close as you could get to manipulating actual type, this is what I meant. I agree that many of the things you mention sound useful, and while I don't think they currently exist in Quark, I don't think there's any particular reason why they couldn't.
Incidentally, my first printing teacher was an early adopter of DTP and design programs, but he believed that everyone should first learn the old-fashioned way of doing things. You look at a leading dialog a whole different way once you've actually gone to the press bed and stuck strips of lead in between your lines of text, and you get a whole new appreciation for justification routines when you've used combinations of copper and brass thin spaces to hand-justify your own line.
The flip side of this is a story I think I've mentioned on this list before. A friend of mine some years ago was teaching an orchestration class, and he noticed that several of the students were handing in assignments where much of the orchestration was done in choirs of three. He assumed it was because three staves was what you could fit on a 9-inch Mac screen in Finale Scroll View. That's an example of someone letting the limitations of the tool affect his thinking, instead of using the tool to accomplish everything he could do by hand.
Aaron.
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