Am 2008-05-31 um 04:20 schrieb luigi scarso:
There are still some areas where you need a programmable system, even trivia like chapter dependant running titles (in ConTeXt: headertexts). Isn't indesign programmable too ? I know people who use it in an automatic workflow for db publishing
You can use JavaScript or COM (on Windows) or AppleScript (also Python/ Ruby appscript) on OSX. Been there, done that. And I use XML for partly automatic typesetting (mostly for event calendars of magazines) - but InDesign's XML processing is very slow and very picky about the encoding (at least CS2 on OSX). Even more picky with "InDesign tagged text" files. But what I meant was: let the running title depend on the chapter title or the like - that's easy with TeX, but I know no automatable way in InDesign. Last night I remembered two more things that TeX can't do, but every layout app can: - text flow around other elements (images) - really working multiple-column layout Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)