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Yes, being locked into to some rigid, fragile proprietary system is such great progress. There's a reason that LaTeX was used 20+ years and is still the gold s
by _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
Yes, being locked into to some rigid, fragile proprietary system is such great progress.
There's a reason that LaTeX was used 20+ years and is still the gold standard: the other options really suck.
- pjmlp 8y agoDITA and Dockbook are not a fragile proprietary system, quite on the contrary. There is a reason LaTeX is barely used out of academia.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y ago> There is a reason LaTeX is barely used out of academia. That's simply untrue. Look at any serious programming books. And LaTeX is used as the back-end for quite a number of text-processing tools.
- pjmlp 8y agoThose written by academics, published by academic related editors, in old style layouts, black and white. Professional publishing has long ago switched to DTP tooling, able to handle layouts and colouring in modern presses.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoThat's not a change. 'Professional' publishing has long used (inferior) DTP solutions.
- pjmlp 8y agoWhere is the LaTeX superior color management solution for typography press?
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoGreat, you've got colour management with lousy type-setting!
- pjmlp 8y agoYep,better tell to the professional book editors the big mistake they are making in their high profile printing.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoI've used DTP tools before too (though it's been a number of a years), so I'm not unfamiliar with the differences. To be fair, the use cases are rather different. Regular fiction books are not so complicated in terms of layout. Magazines are generally involve much more complicated layouts - where there are questions of getting colours right, having text wrap, and so on. But for technical work, it's insane to use anything not TeX-based (e.g. Scribble), even if you don't use TeX directly.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoSo DITA and Dockbook are other names for FrameMaker and Oxygen XML? No, of course they're not. I don't know why you continue to switch the topic.
- pjmlp 8y agoThey are industry standards for document interchange of books and technical documentation, handled by PageMaker and Oxygen XML, among many others supported by them.