On 2011-10-28 21:02, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
2011/10/28msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases
are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
default because of available GUI tools
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Chris Travers wrote:
A couple things I'd point out. TeX makes it possible to create
beautiful books. LaTeX makes it possible to create beautiful books
easily.
but encourages users to create ugly ones.
Why do I say this ? Well, a user wishing to typeset a book
using TeX has
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote:
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Chris Travers wrote:
A couple things I'd point out. TeX makes it possible to create
beautiful books. LaTeX makes it possible to create beautiful books
easily.
but encourages users
Chris Travers wrote:
I think you are assuming a lot about knowledge of book design. The
LaTeX styles out of the box are a bit formal. I think the margins are
too wide, and I prefer different fonts But I would hardly call
them ugly ...
OK. one quote from my 1993 paper Book Design for
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote:
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Chris Travers wrote:
A couple things I'd point out. TeX makes it possible to create
beautiful books. LaTeX makes it possible to create beautiful books
easily.
but encourages users
2011/10/29 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk:
Chris Travers wrote:
I think you are assuming a lot about knowledge of book design. The
LaTeX styles out of the box are a bit formal. I think the margins are
too wide, and I prefer different fonts But I would hardly
On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Personally, I would not mind if XeTeX went into maintenance mode. I like
such stability. It already has a great deal of functionality, probably
enough to last me the rest of my writing career. I do take Vafa's point,
though, that if
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM, William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.com wrote:
On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
Personally, I would not mind if XeTeX went into maintenance mode. I like
such stability. It already has a great deal of functionality, probably
enough to last
On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:54 PM, George N. White III wrote:
0. Why is Tex still necessary? My impression is that Knuth hoped to
see his work used in more creative ways than TeX distros.
Well, that's why LuaTeX is being developed, and the thought behind the
development of ANT (though I haven't
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases
are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
Large database publications. Variable data printing.
Also,
2011/10/28 msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases
are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
Large database
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases
are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
We have a process that starts with DocBook (XML) and gets
2011/10/28 maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases
are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
We have a process
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