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From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:04:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.tc5rdchknx1yh1@walayah-main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1G4i3k-0003Gv-00@skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk>

Hi Sanjoy,

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:48:07 -0600, Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>  
wrote:

> It's _Beautiful Evidence_ (2006) and it is beautiful.  I think it was
> typeset in Quark.  A few pages from the book, as well some of Tufte's
> updates on the book's production, are here:
>
> <http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000262&topic_id=1>
>
> Can TeX/LaTeX/ConTexT-based typesetting can look as good?  Perhaps!

I'm curious: What is preventing ConTeXt in particular from looking this  
good?
What is the basis of your "Perhaps!"? What's missing?

Best
Idris

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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-23 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-21 16:55 David Wooten
2006-07-21 17:36 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-21 19:22   ` David Wooten
2006-07-22 14:00     ` John R. Culleton
2006-07-22 15:35 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-23 17:48   ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-07-23 20:04     ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2006-07-23 20:38       ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-07-24  9:30         ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-24 15:23           ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-07-25 12:12 ` Karl Ove Hufthammer
2006-07-26 21:02   ` Nicolas Grilly
2006-07-27 14:14     ` Karl Ove Hufthammer

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