Bart Lateur wrote:
> * wysiwyg: a DTP package, QuarkXPress (still 3.x). I like its
> simplicity and its power. The tagged text file format is pretty simple,
> but very powerful, and allow me to format my text by script (= Perl),
> even for whole books, in very minute detail. Word is a very crude tool
> in comparison. Plus, its scriptability is very good.
Hi Bart,
from PageMaker ("PageWaiter", 1989) I switched to QuarkXPress (1991).
Lateron did not like the dongle and the high price and the bad, bad German
hyphenation.
*VivaPress* (www.viva.de) does not have a dongle, the price is a quarter
of QXP's, it has a perfect hyphenation.
A great plus is that it has a readable (and thus buildable) language not only
for its text styles (compatible to QuarkXPressMarken), but for any
object on its pages; so if you have to import 200 pictures, better do it by
Perl and VivaMarken than by hand.
Text styles can be given to any character (and not to the paragraph).
2 disadvantages: It seems not to be scriptable at all (but I did not yet miss this
feature). And sometimes I miss that it does not put footnotes automatically
what Word (aaargh) does.
Detlef
