Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[Peter King]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:27:27AM -0400, Gron Arthur wrote:

> 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.

TeX can generate pdf (there is even a version, pdfTeX, that produces 
such files directly rather than dvi output)> TeX can also, with minor 
effort, produce reasonable html.

However, I was addressing what tools professionals use these days -- 
which I took to be a question about tools used to produce high-quality
output, which still means printed books. TeX can and does drive Varitype
printers, and is the final stage in many book-production presses. Because
Knuth made some clever design decisions, it produces excellent output
even on low-resolution output devices (like 2400dpi laser printers). It
was even better on nine-pin dot matrix printers, all because Knuth used
sophisticated line-breaking algorithms and page-description measurements
(including his own version of kerning tables).

For easy copy-and-paste I prefer straight ASCII text (or Unicode).

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