[pdftex] tiny supp-{pdf,mis}.tex bug? line numbers TeX/MSWord

[John Culleton]

On Tuesday 18 March 2003 05:30 am, Adrian Heathcote wrote:
> Marco
>
> Just on this point:
> > 3. TeX/MSWord
> >
> >    I was talking the other day to a student of typography who told me
> > that
> >    "no" typesetting program [she was, I guess, mainly talking about
> > major
> >    programs like MSWord, Adobe products, ...] would have control over
> >    extra spacing between letters, like V/o and such. When I told her

Athough many (too many) books are "set" in MSWord, that product is not a 
typesetting engine but rather a word processor. A better choice for setting a 
book among the word processor class of products would be WordPerfect.

The regularly available typesetting programs are the TeX family of course, 
Quark, Framemaker, Pagemaker, Ventura Publisher and another 
less-than-mediocre product from Redmond, Microsoft Publisher.
MSWord is not this kind of product.

Too many people think that MSWord is what it is not.  The quality, reliablity 
etc. of the product is another topic. I am merely discussing classifications.

For a fuller discussion of the issues relating to word processors versus 
typesetting programs please review the documents I have collected on:
http://wexfordpress.com/wextex.html

John Culleton