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> 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 qu
by _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.