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At no point in the paper is exactly what is meant by a "formatting error" or a "typesetting error" defined. No, and they clearly don't mean it in any way that
by sramsay 12y ago
At no point in the paper is exactly what is meant by a "formatting error" or a "typesetting error" defined.
No, and they clearly don't mean it in any way that a designer would find intelligible. Let's compare the two in terms of things like kerning, hyphenation, text figures, ligatures . . .
http://www.zinktypografie.nl/latex.php?lang=en http://www.zinktypografie.nl/latex.php?lang=en
In some sense, it's not even a fair comparison. TeX is a typesetting system, which Word makes no claim to be. You can do some primitive "formatting" in Word, but you can't layout a book or an article to the standards required by contemporary book/journal design.
I have lots of books on my shelf that were designed using either TeX or LaTeX (though InDesign is far more common). I have exactly none that were designed using Word.
- wodenokoto 12y ago> Word, but you can't layout a book or an article to the standards required by contemporary book/journal design. Of course you can. Plenty of books are done in Word and many papers and conferences release word templates for paper submissions.
- jamessb 12y agoMany books are indeed initially written and edited using Word, but aren't they generally passed on to someone who does the final layout in InDesign/QuarkXpress before printing? In contrast, authors using LaTeX often produce camera-ready copy themselves.
- sramsay 12y agoFor submission. The designer is not using Word. Ever.