Re: How could a typesetting system be today?

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am 2008-05-31 um 04:20 schrieb luigi scarso:

>> There are still some areas where you need a programmable system, even
>> trivia like chapter dependant running titles (in ConTeXt:  
>> headertexts).
> Isn't indesign programmable too ?
> I know people who use it in an automatic workflow for db publishing

You can use JavaScript or COM (on Windows) or AppleScript (also Python/ 
Ruby appscript) on OSX. Been there, done that.
And I use XML for partly automatic typesetting (mostly for event  
calendars of magazines) - but InDesign's XML processing is very slow  
and very picky about the encoding (at least CS2 on OSX). Even more  
picky with "InDesign tagged text" files.

But what I meant was: let the running title depend on the chapter  
title or the like - that's easy with TeX, but I know no automatable  
way in InDesign.

Last night I remembered two more things that TeX can't do, but every  
layout app can:
- text flow around other elements (images)
- really working multiple-column layout


Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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