Greetings, Keith, Thomas, and all,
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:43:59 -0600, Thomas A. Schmitz
<thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
if you look at the books of decent publishers, you will see that most of
them still use ligatures (most American university presses, Oxford and
Cambridge, German publishers such as Reclam etc.) However, many smaller
publishers don't give a rat's ass about esthetics, and that's where Word
comes into play: they have their authors deliver their manuscripts as
Word files and simply typeset from that, more often than not by
employing some underpaid and untrained "contractors" in India. Cuts
costs and makes authors do all the work that publishers used to do in
the olden days... Taking this as the norm is not a good idea.
The situation Thomas is describing is analogous to what happened 40 years
ago: When metal-based typesetting started to die out, what came after was
atrocious but ubiquitous. And that's _exactly_ why Knuth invented TeX!
As a general rule: High-quality typesetting with good fonts and the
ligatures off is like pouring fine wine into a plastic cup.
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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