Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.wanted:3853 comp.sys.mac.misc:12528 comp.sys.mac.apps:6365 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekig7!tekig10!briand From: briand@tekig10.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Why does Mac output not look as good as LaTex? Message-ID: <2028@tekig7.MAP.TEK.COM> Date: 25 May 91 02:20:40 GMT References: <20081@cs.utexas.edu> <1991May20.223955.22343@midway.uchicago.edu> <26376@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1445@mephisto.edu> Sender: news@tekig7.MAP.TEK.COM Reply-To: briand@tekig10.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.wanted Organization: /usr/ens/etc/organization Lines: 31 >TeX performs a complex optimization on the entire page to give you the best >possible output within its heuristics. This is why it's output looks almost >as good as you can get with professional typesetting. (But not quite; no-one >has as yet been able to fully mathematicize typesetting aesthetics.) This is >also why it's difficult to do this on a WYSIWYG word processor >(theoretically, a small change on one page could cause a complete >recomputation of all following pages). Interleaf does this. It is my belief that a new Macintosh version of Interleaf will soon be out, one that is completely Mac-like. In fact, I have been told that it was one of the major test beds for System 7, because it was the first major application written specifically for System 7 (as opposed to migrated up from System 6.x.x). Anyway, a small change in one paragraph can cause vertical tracking changes on the page that roll things across page boundaries. Interleaf takes care of it all, WYSIWYG and real time. (My Interleaf experience comes from Sun platforms.) Of the things mentioned in the original posting that "typesetting" systems do, I believe Interleaf does them all except perhaps the special typesetting for equations in-line as opposed to in a block. DISCLAIMER: I'm not an Interleaf insider, so what I say is worth exactly what you paid for it. -- -Brian Diehm Tektronix, Inc. (503) 627-3437 briand@tekig10.PEN.TEK.COM P.O. Box 500, M/S 19-286 Beaverton, OR 97077