Shakespeare in PDF from XML

[Iain Truskett]

* Anders Thulin <ath at algonet.se>:


> aaron_watters at my-deja.com wrote:

> > We took XML source markup to book format PDF documents in one step.
> > Each play took around 15 seconds.

> They look as if they did, I'm sorry to say. Typography by algorithm --
> pretty ghastly.

More a case of 'typography by bad algorithm'. If only they had used TeX
(in particular, pdfTeX).

I'd do it myself, but have neither the time, nor the inclination.


cheers!
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