From kde-devel  Fri Aug 03 13:01:12 2001
From: Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:01:12 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: About TeX as printing engine [Re: Fwd: Re: Application Ideas]
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99684379025546

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Info wrote:

> Hello to all!
> 
> I speak about TeX usage as main printing engine because TeX was 
> developed by Donald Knuth ESPECIALLY for very fine printing. And it 
> was very serious, fundamental development work, beginned from basic 
> principles of human's impression of printed text. Somebody want to 
> repead this work? OK, he must learn the history of polygraphy, the 
> requirements to professional typograhpic maketing and so on. 
> Development of hight-quality printing system is not only coding. It's 
> "border" of programming, psychology, physyology and so on.

[snip]

The problem is that (La)TeX is not really suitable for DTP-style printing
(i.e. with lots of graphics).

Maybe this can overcome with using low-level TeX for specific parts of
text, but it sure would be quite a feat.

Greetings,
Peter

 
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