From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41284 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How could a typesetting system be today? Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 12:18:49 +0200 Message-ID: <99CB0DC4-6A35-43EC-8636-3F2012D740A3@fiee.net> References: <68bfdc900805300012o789c12ebi15cb7ec3e0f10155@mail.gmail.com> <68bfdc900805300524r38f327acg88e766ea5a159acc@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212229215 25434 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2008 10:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 10:20:15 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat May 31 12:20:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K2OCl-0005Uh-Rk for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 12:20:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 233FE1FBF9; Sat, 31 May 2008 12:20:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22179-02; Sat, 31 May 2008 12:19:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402FD1FC2F; Sat, 31 May 2008 12:19:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DB81FC2F for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 12:19:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22408-01-4 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 12:18:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lvps87-230-27-118.dedicated.hosteurope.de (fiee.net [87.230.27.118]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9CE1FBF9 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 12:18:52 +0200 (CEST) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys Original-Received: (qmail 11920 invoked from network); 31 May 2008 12:18:52 +0200 Original-Received: from 62-52.62-81.cust.bluewin.ch (HELO ?10.128.9.9?) (81.62.52.62) by fiee.net with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 May 2008 12:18:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41284 Archived-At: 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 --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________