Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[Peter King]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:19:46PM -0400, William Park wrote:

> By the way, what tools do professionals use nowdays?  TeX is the only
> tool I know, but I doubt if people use that.

TeX, and in fact, plain TeX. I produce critical editions of texts with it.
So do many scholars. I have seen editions in English, Latin, Greek, Arabic,
and Hebrew, all set with TeX.

Math journals are well-nigh universally set in some version of TeX (usually
with AMSTeX). Cambridge University Press typesets its "Companion" series
of volumes using LaTeX. And so on. 

If you want high-quality typesetting and beautiful books, TeX is still a 
major player. The things it does well (most things), it does extremely well,
a testament to Donald Knuth. It does show its age in spots, and there are
several competitors for "successor" status: XeTeX, for instance. But plain
TeX can still be set up to do just about anything, since it is not so much
a typesetting program as it is a typesetting programming language. People
can do simply *amazing* things with it.

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