On 7/18/06, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 2006-07-18 um 15:56 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > > > That's not my problem any more. They asked me to prepare long > > continuous text with TeX (so that formulae and everything else will be > > OK) - they intend to use the resulting PDF to design a magazine in > > InDesign after that (I don't know how they're going to do that, but I > > assume that InDesign should be able to handle that - if not, I'll > > think about that after the problems arise). > > I recently had to typeset a book about steam engineering with some > formulae. > I would've done it with TeX, but the customer wanted InDesign data to > be able to make corrections himself (and I wasn't evil enough to > place TeX generated PDF pages in an ID document). > I can tell you, typesetting formulae in InDesign are not funny!
1. not funny 2. extremely ugly I would do everything in ConTeXt, but I'm not a designer and I don't dare to take over the whole design. besides that magazines need sligtly more "individuality" for each page than books. The most easy solution would be if there was some TeX plugin in InDesign. The designers (students) only know how to work in ID and they suggested that they could do the desing in ID if I provided long columns of text (typeset in TeX) as PDF document. I never worked with ID (so I don't know how exactly it works), but apparently they're going to take the PDF document and order the text more or less graphically on pages. They don't need to modify text any more once they get the PDF (they don't understand the content anyway ;). Taco also mentioned some alternatives to ID, but I forgot which ones. Mojca _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
