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 14:29:00 -0500
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 01:59 PM, Chuck Toporek wrote:
The additional problem there is that most printers today don't like
TeX or troff, or even PostScript. Publishers tend to be bound by a
format their printers can accept and print from, and also by what
their staff can work with.
Oh, hell. With TeXtures you just save as PDF and it's a done deal. If
a printer can't make plates from a PDF file, you're using the wrong
printer!
In regard to typography, as the editor, I have no control over the
choice of fonts in our books, but I can pass your comments along. (I
don't even have a choice or say on the cover animal.) That's all
handled by production and design.
All the more reason to use TeX. I can make a change in font and
re-typeset a major book in seconds! With a few minutes work redoing
some macros up front, I can change the entire look and feel of a book.
I don't understand this reluctance to use the best tool for the job.
After all, we are talking about computer science books here, so dealing
with the TeX mojo should be easy for folks doing arcane crap like C++
and.NET and such like. And as I has said repeatedly, once you get the
hang of TeX it is actually easier than farting around with a silly word
processor and all the nonsense M$ make you have to put up with. If I
were not so busy with my killer app I'd offer to show you a demo.
Brian
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