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Old 05-04-2009, 07:35 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by dauwhe View Post
Things are slightly better with "application" files (InDesign, etc.). If done by a decent typesetter, the split paragraph problem shouldn't happen, for example. But I do remember a book where most of the text appeared twice when first extracted from Quark. The (bad) typesetter had left almost another complete copy of the book "hidden" in a text box. The extraction program dutifully found all the text, whether hidden or not.

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Odd, that. I'd always thought that "the industry" would appreciate LaTeX for its strengths over those WYSIWYG-type things. Admittedly LaTeX doesn't have a very up-to-date (or widely adopted) IDE, but still.
Oh, well. Another myth dispelled.
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