Shakespeare in PDF from XML

[Iain Truskett]

* Anders Thulin <ath at algonet.se>:
> Iain Truskett wrote:
> > More a case of 'typography by bad algorithm'. If only they had used TeX
> > (in particular, pdfTeX).

> It wouldn't have helped much: I find nothing in the examples that TeX
> clearly would have done better. (I haven't studied all of them in
> minute detail, I hope it's clear.)

TeX's word spacing. It typically gets the subtleties right.

[...]
> It's just that good typography -- the viewpoint from which I tried to
> criticize the results -- is not achieved in a single pass or without
> the help of a critical eye. But then, it seems not really to be what
> these samples were intended to illustrate.

Yes. I agree completely. I tend to use TeX since it gets most things
right first go --- thus minimising the need for successive changes (but
rarely allowing complete removal of all manual frobnicating).


cheers!
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iain truskett, aka Koschei.                    <http://eh.org/~koschei/>
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