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No need for AI --- I used to work up automated typesetting systems for a previous employer --- feed in the database as a properly tagged XML file, provide all t

No need for AI --- I used to work up automated typesetting systems for a previous employer --- feed in the database as a properly tagged XML file, provide all the graphics in a folder, and a couple of typesetting runs later, one had a fully paginated PDF w/ ToC and Index. The problem is, no one wants to pay for this since no value is seen in such a paginated view --- even if AI could create such a typesetting routine.

lysace 1y ago
I mean, what I'm after is a page layout that is designed with compactness and readability in mind. Going from a product database to that requires quite a lot. An example: https://archive.org/details/mouserelectronic00unse/page/190/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/mouserelectronic00unse/page/190/...
- bombcar 1y ago
  A printed catalog also provides discovery that no website has ever matched.
  - lysace 1y ago
    Exactly. So, my hope is that AI can rebuild this lost art that is now deemed too expensive.
Mikhail_Edoshin 1y ago
Paginated view is stable. Scrollable is not. This hinders spatial memory immensely, but goes unnoticed.