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Originally Posted by frabjous
The entire art of typography of the past 500 years was a waste, and good riddance.
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The art of typography is still valid for ... typography!
It is irrelevant for the new media.
There are always those who try to impose the old standards to a new media. This is a mistake that has been repeated many times in history. Are you sad for the disappearance of calligraphy, an art of 3000 years, because of the "vulgar" typography?
Latex was good for the '80s. Cobol was good for the '60s. Things change.
The future is css and XML.