2011/10/28 <msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote: >> > majority of documents are created using GUI tools. What use cases >> > are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by >> > default because of available GUI tools refuse to play. >> >> Large database publications. Variable data printing. > > Also, anything where documents end up checked into the source control > and configuration management systems used for software development. It's > really nice to be able to compile my TeX documents along with my code. I > can't do that with GUI tools.
Documents being written by several people in cooperation in real time (usually living in a versioning system) Documents that have to be rendered from sources on several different platforms Documents that have to be rendered from sources years later Documents containing math Documents created on-the-fly by a web service (Just for comparison: a few years ago it was my job to produce a printed book from database data where authors did not distinguish hyphens from dashes and put chemical formulas as H2SO4 on a line, not as H$_2$SO$_4$ because they do not know tex, do not have indexes on a keyboard and wrote it in the web form. I prepared an auxilliary file with replacements inside TeX macros and typesetting 80 pages book took me just 2 hours, including hand-tuning the page breaks. Now it is done by another man using InDesign, it takes him 4 weeks and he does not correct any of these errors.) > -- > Matthew Skala > msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. > http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex