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Old 01-25-2010, 01:20 PM   #16
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Actually, somewhat ironically, XeLaTeX has better support for opentype fonts than even InDesign, if I'm not mistaken.

I also think in general (Xe)(La)TeX is better than InDesign -- in fact, I recently wrote to a publisher of one of my recent works, who used InDesign for layout, telling them I was rather unhappy with the output, and provided something I had typeset with XeLaTeX, and included a list of seven ways that my typesetting was better than their professional typesetting, even though I'm an amateur, and even the publisher agreed with me.

In fairness, however, it could well be that the typesetter in question was just incompetent, and the fault is not with InDesign itself.
Such a comparison would be interesting. Considering my limited experience with TeX and what I've seen from it in the past, I could be unfairly judging it myself.

However, there's not much in the way of samples about this site to recommend TeX, and replacing my current pain in the ass workflow with a completely different pain in the ass workflow that will yield inferior results for me is pointless.
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