On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 11:07 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/07/2013 10:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > That might work for some projects, but generally speaking people using > > TeX/LaTeX are concerned about finer control of typesetting, especially > > when it comes to mathematical material. TeX/LaTeX is the gold standard > > for this. To paraphrase Brian Kernighan, the trouble with WYSIWYG is > > that it usually means What You See Is*All* You Get. > > You may find this interesting, then. PDF files created by Scribus are > considerably larger than those created by Adobe. This is because Adobe > sets the position for a line, then inserts a string of characters for > that line. Scribus sets the position for each character as it goes. > That makes very precise positioning of specific elements possible, far > more than in Adobe. Of course, it takes work to learn how to do this (I > haven't, as I don't need it.) and to get it right. However, if you're > happy using TeX, and it does what you want the way you want, that's all > that's important, isn't it?
Not really sure why you're bringing in Adobe. TeX/LaTeX have nothing to do with PDF (sure, they can optionally generate PDF output, but that's not the point). What I was really getting at is that TeX/LaTeX has a widely accepted encoding for mathematical material, plus an extremely sophisticated typesetting algorithm that makes it looks nice. No other tool even comes close (GUI or not). poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
