Re: What layout/styling technologies have people used? [Was: Revise group description?]

Just picking up on two points.


> I wrote some fairly complex FOSIs for Arbortext’s original TeX based
> publishing engine from 1995 – 2000 and beyond.

I still remember this noisy guy (!!) on the DSSSL list shouting 'we don't need
no steenking FOSI's. Norm Walsh.

At the time they were deemed to be quite powerful.


> with a FOSI if you were in the know, tenacious, and had access to the
> engineers on the 4th floor… The APP engine is capable of far more
> sophisticated layouts, though. Unfortunately, it has taken a long time to
> put an interface on top of the engine to make it usable by mere mortals
> (compared to programming gurus).

does that mean you have Jean?


>
> The big two missing from your list are Quark and InDesign. Quark was the
> next big thing just as I was leaving the comp house where I did page layout
> with a pica stick and a calculator in 1995. InDesign seemingly took over the
> professional/trade/educational publishing world around 2006-2007.

I've heard it said that inDesign is now often taken as the master, from which
print houses then wish to take epub, html etc.

It always struck me that Adobe were missing a trick not to provide a path
from XML to InDesign.  I guess they have commercial reasons for that.

regards





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