Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

LaTeX can ultimately produce a document in various formats, including HTML
and PDF.

> 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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