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Subject: Re: About TeX as printing engine [Re: Fwd: Re: Application Ideas]
From: Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date: 2001-08-03 13:01:12
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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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