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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] InDesign typography advantage [Was: Re: [docbook-apps]DocBook and InDesign]
Tim Arnold wrote: > I can't imagine someone needing higher typographic quality than that. > Wouldn't that bypass the problem of fo, indesign, antennahouse et > al.? In my experience the DBLaTeX workflow is very high quality, no > matter the technical content of the document. TeX as well FO work in batch mode -- you can't interactively fiddle with details like line and page breaks and object placement and instantly see changes on-screen. This necessary especially for document with "more artistic" design. Also I'm not sure whether pdfTeX implementation of hz-algorithm and hanging punctuation is on a par with one available in InDesign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hz-program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_punctuation -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member ------------------------------------------------------------------
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