encoding and Omega and commercial and limbo (was Re: [pdftex] MS Word hell, TeX heaven?)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

> Berthold Horn said it was used for a time in this post:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=462rf3%24k8s%40life.ai.mit.edu&output=gplain
> 
I suspect Berhold of plugging the same urban myth

> There was also an article on this AIUI:
> David Ness, The use of T E X in a commercial environment, in TUG87,
> ed., Dean Guenther,
> number 5 in T E Xniques. Publications for the T E X Community, pp.
> 115123, P. O. Box 9506
> Providence, R. I. 02940, U.S.A., (1987). T E X Users Group.

yes, I was at that at TUG meeting and heard the talk.
He said they were experimenting with TeX. He handed
out copies of TV Guide, I recall.

> >10-15 years, but not sure why its relevant?
> 
> How long would it've taken XML to've been done had SGML not existed?
> Surely. having this leg up helped the abbreviated timeframe from
> nascency to TV mention.
fair point.

but TeX has still never made it into TV, despite being older than SGML

> Apostolos Syropoulos seems to've managed fairly well with _Digital
> Typography Using LaTeX_, just published from Springer-Verlag...

I helped Apostolos with the CD for that book, and had his example
files at one time. no, they didnt all process with Omega, I recall!


> there're a bunch of typos, still it got produced, and with Omega for the
> most part.

I have produced 4 books with TeX as an XSL FO engine, does that make
it production ready? no....

Sebastian