Re: For The Typesetting Geeks

["Kari Eveli" lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

David Auerbach wrote:
I'm pretty sure that every math, logic and computer science journal is typeset from LaTex. Those
who write for those journals know how to (must know how to) write directly in LaTex (at least the
simple mark-up portion of it). There are front-ends to make some things easier and what amount to
canned style-sets. Googling with get you its history and more details (keyword: Knuth)
 It makes typesetting equations, integrals, matrices, tree-structures, etc. trivial or near trivial.
(for an extreme example Google: LaTex Begriffsschrift)

That is a very good point. But nowadays a wysiwyg application is what for most people would need for
generalist typographical work. Some mainstream applications have limited support for math, e.g.
Ventura and even Word.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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