[XeTeX] [tex-live] Future state of XeTeX in TeXLive

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/10/28  <mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote:
>> > majority of documents are created using GUI tools.   What use cases
>> > are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by
>> > default because of available GUI tools refuse to play.
>>
>> Large database publications. Variable data printing.
>
> Also, anything where documents end up checked into the source control
> and configuration management systems used for software development.  It's
> really nice to be able to compile my TeX documents along with my code.  I
> can't do that with GUI tools.

Documents being written by several people in cooperation in real time
(usually living in a versioning system)

Documents that have to be rendered from sources on several different platforms

Documents that have to be rendered from sources years later

Documents containing math

Documents created on-the-fly by a web service

(Just for comparison: a few years ago it was my job to produce a
printed book from database data where authors did not distinguish
hyphens from dashes and put chemical formulas as H2SO4 on a line, not
as H$_2$SO$_4$ because they do not know tex, do not have indexes on a
keyboard and wrote it in the web form. I prepared an auxilliary file
with replacements inside TeX macros and typesetting 80 pages book took
me just 2 hours, including hand-tuning the page breaks. Now it is done
by another man using InDesign, it takes him 4 weeks and he does not
correct any of these errors.)
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