On Tuesday 26 June 2007 09:15, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007 14:36 schrieb John R. Culleton: > > On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:19, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > > On 6/24/07, Michael Engel wrote: > > > > I searched for "italic fonts" and just found that there are > > > > some reasons not to have it included - but this is not > > > > understandable for the non-professionals. > > > > > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Word_Processing_vs_DTP > > > > It is interesting that TeX was not mentioned in the Wiki article. > > It's not mentioned because TeX is a typesetting engine, not a word > processor. > Quark and InDesign are mentioned, and they are certainly not word processors either.
> > It > > is an Open Source DTP application with a large number of users. > > If typesetting is the same as DTP for you, then, yes, TeX and its > children are DTP applications. Since TeX in its Context incarnation will also do some amount of imposition then I wonder what is lacking to make it a dtp application in your understanding. I am not arguing, just asking. Is it the lack of a built-in text editor? The lack of WYSIWYG? > BTW, many Scribus users and > certainly the developers and contributors know TeX very well ;) > Yes, I was only questioning the wiki article. -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
