Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jaap+ From: jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jaap Akkerhuis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: a word-processor for UNIX Message-ID: Date: 26 Jul 89 16:57:32 GMT References: <20306@adm.BRL.MIL> <26558@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8467@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <26567@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1552@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> <8484@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, <1555@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: <1555@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> > Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.unix.questions: 25-Jul-89 Re: a word-processor > for UNIX Tim McClarren@herodotus. (1954) > Incidentally, what sort of books are these that were typeset with > TeX/*roff? Well, any book can be typeset with these tools. I remember seing next to each other waiting to be send off to the printer, the minutes of yet another meeting of the UN (about ~4000 pages) and the autobiography (~200 pages) of the main character from `Deap Throat', somebody Lovelace or what ever. Both were typeset using troff. (Both texts were just as interesting). What people seem to forget in this discussion is that still the large majority of book published nowadays are actually still typeset by professional typesetters. They will use whatever tools are available for them. Heck, I've seen books, done in TeX, delivered to the typesetter on tape and hard copy, completely keyboarded from the latter one, because it was more cost effective to do that then to go through the exercise of disecting the tape and the authors macros, create macros which would decent looking fonts and implement a decent design etc. Of course the author was told that they used his tape and actually went trough the exercise. jaap PS. Although interesting, maybe we should move this discussion out of unix.questions into comp.text, so everybody else won't be interrupted discussing rm ./-rf