Re: Subject: Re: Cocoa Book / ok, ok.
Re: Subject: Re: Cocoa Book / ok, ok.
- Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Cocoa Book / ok, ok.
- From: "Brian E. Howard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:34:35 -0500
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 06:18 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
I'm not particularly surprised to discover that it's difficult for
publishers to remember to turn off the autocorrect feature in MS Word
or
Quark or whatever when preparing technical texts for printing.
Everybody is
very tired by that point -- authors, editors, copy editors, publishers
--
everybody. And I gather it's not uncommon for this step to happen
AFTER the
author's last opportunity to review the product.
This is why all book, especially technical books, should be typeset by
the author with Tex. I recommend Textures from Blue Sky Research, the
finest implementation of TeX to be found in the known universe. Thanks
to M$ and Quark and such like trash, and sending the job off-shore, the
typography of books in general has gone straight to hell. TeX is much
like Cocoa in one regard: steep learning curve, but then typesetting
actually becomes easier than using a word processor! And the
cost-cutting publishers can't screw it up, while saving even more money
at the same time.
Brian E. Howard
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