[pdftex] MS Word hell, TeX heaven?

[William Adams]

Gonna pass on the other stuff, but....

Sebastian said:
> I know its a not a measure used in this world much, but do you know
> that it look approximately 18 months from the release of XML for
> it to be featured in a TV commercial?

Ironically, there was a time when TV Guide was typeset w/ TeX---not 
sure if that's still the case or no, though. (Did catch one article 
'bout them using AppleScript to manage ads though, so possibly not).

Moreover, how long was it from SGML -> XML?

> did you ever recall reading
> one of those business analyses noting TeX as a key technology?

Presumably they're not planning on printing ;)

Paperless office and all that, right?

Funny thing is TeX quite a bit more capable at generating 
form-oriented pdfs &c. than Adobe Acrobat itself....

> Even if you look at the analysis made of the US government's dependence
> on Open Source software, TeX doesnt figure much.

Yeah, but it still gets used behind the scenes quite often when ink 
hits paper.

One also has things like InDesign which directly take advantage of 
TeX w/o acknowledgement :(

Also, can't help but wonder what Microsoft is doing w/ Leslie Lamport 
working for them....

William

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