Re: How could a typesetting system be today?

["luigi scarso" <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

> - much faster (i.e. I don't need to wait for several TeX runs e.g. if
> I need to check if some tweak fixed my page breaking)
On average
true for manual composition, maybe false for automatic workflow

> - optical (vs. metrical) kerning
hz ?
> - a GUI ;-) and thus layout by "let's try how it looks"
true
> - layout definition (I struggle with ConTeXt's \setuplayout every time)
maybe

> - better page breaking constraints (you can define in your style
> sheets "keep n lines together" and "keep this together with the next
> paragraph)
maybe (hans/taco help needed here )

> - PDF/X output
> - color profile conversions
maybe.
They can be after, in prepress ,
so can be sensate to keep separate
this from tex.

> - image processing features like crop paths, feathered edges, drop
> shadow (in ConTeXt I need to prepare such in Photoshop in the right
> size - but I guess it would be possible to write a module that uses
> ImageMagick to achieve something similar)
maybe

-- 
luigi
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