[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: The problem with typography (with or without flow objects)
Eve L. Maler writes: > production system that uses FOs to increase efficiency and interoperability > will probably continue in the direction of worrying about turnaround while > giving shorter shrift to page beauty. This isn't guaranteed, of course, > but can you imagine pumping RTF out of your FO-based system and then going > through and hand-fixing 2-3 items per page to your satisfaction, *each* > time you publish? Only marketing-ish material gets this treatment these No, but I can imagine using PIs to hard-wire instructions to the formatter. Having actually *done* a book using FOs, I know it works. We put in PIs to force page breaks in the formatter, for instance. > Well, no. They had no broken type, but their content was a few weeks more > "stale" than the software they described. Our Read Me First documents were > *huge* in those days. According to our customers, this was not "better"; > it was worse than slightly less lovely documents that had fewer errors. It seems to be a disease of the computer industry to rush things to market. Who else would ever do this? Does your car have a ReadMe.First document? your video player? It's hard to accept that a few weeks is important in the life of a serious bit of software. Isnt it indicative of firefight bugfixing? So tell us, by the way, are Sun embracing FOs? Sebastian *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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