Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[Gron Arthur]

I'm not a fan of pdf books.  With HTML I can copy and paste easily -
that's what I'm interested in.  Form follows function.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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