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The problem with this: LaTeX (or actually TeX) typesetting is way better. It is hard to get all the spacing, kerning, hyphenation, etc., right so that the text
by Upvoter33 4y ago
The problem with this: LaTeX (or actually TeX) typesetting is way better. It is hard to get all the spacing, kerning, hyphenation, etc., right so that the text looks good. There is no way a CSS-based solution comes close.
- WillAdams 4y agoMoreover, one needs controls for: - widows/orphans - running paragraphs one or more line longer or shorter - setting a page spread to be one (or possibly two) lines deeper or shallower - adjusting the size/cropping of an image/figure/table so as to influence pagination - adjusting the placement of an image/figure/table so as to influence pagination In my decades of doing typesetting, I've had exactly _one_ chapter come out perfectly on import w/ no need to adjust _anything_ --- fastest 40 minutes of my life.
- luckystarr 4y agoTeX not only handles hyphenation, but also decides on where in a certain word it should hyphenate to optimize the current paragraph as a whole, balancing the hyphenation position in the word (some positions are better than others) against the aesthetics of the paragraph.