John R. Culleton schrieb: > 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? > >
It is the lack of totally control over the layout: TeX places images *somewhere* where it thinks they fit, but I have not realy a chance to says that they have to appear exactly here or there. >> BTW, many Scribus users and >> certainly the developers and contributors know TeX very well ;) >> >> I have to use LateX/TeX every day in the university ... and I hate it ... ;-) > > Yes, I was only questioning the wiki article. > > TeX isn't a DTP app - because the lack of control. TeX isn't a wordprocessor - because of missing WYSIWYG, missing Editor and so on and so on and so on. TeX is a typesetting engine, not more and not less. Feel free to add a section about typesetting engines to the wiki - beside TeX, I would also suggest XSL FO .... Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de German Forum - DTP under Linux: http://www.opendtp.de ----------------------------
