Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007 15:36 schrieb John R. Culleton: > 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.
Of course not, they're DTP programs ;) > > > > 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? IMHO, WYSIWIG is a very important aspect of DTP. DTP is about visual design of pages. I always compare DTP to the final assembly of a machine, where all the parts produced by others are put together with high precision. To achieve this precision and keep control over the output, you need a WYSIWIG mode. Cheers Christoph
