On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:59:45PM +0100 or thereabouts, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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> To take this further, one would have to argue about what is ugly. There
> is a continuous scale from very ugly to very beautiful. Products like M$
> Word cover the range from very ugly to somewhere in between. The very
> beautiful end is accessible to professional typesetting systems only,
> ie. TeX based systems like LaTeX or Adobe's InDesign.
I can confirm this as I'm in publishing, and previously worked as a
typesetter. InDesign is indeed quite powerful as is TeX/Latex. I'd give
the edge to InDesign though if one is incorporating graphics and other
media.
Interestingly, Adobe InDesign type engine is derived directly from TeX,
so that's why it's so good.
The other fella Miles Fieldman, (I think) mentioned that corporations
use word templates etc. Sure, for filling in a form letter, however it's
been my experience that the majority of corporate branding is done in
design and typesetting shops, not by Suzy or Joe using MSFT Word.
I have often done form letters for corporate clients in InDesign; MSFT
Word is used simply for the copy, which I then take and make beautiful
in InDesign. Nobody serious about how their document looks finished,
will ever use MSFT Word -- It's typesetting is atrocious.
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Regards
Stephen A.
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