Topics: Software : Typesetting
"Typesetting" is the rendering of letterformson visible media. Examples are the words (notthe graphics) on the printed pages of a book,or the words on the display of your computer screen.Software for typesetting covers a broad range:software appropriate for typesetting a phone bookwill be of little help in preparing a magazine.Also, it is frequently difficult to separate the "software" from the "system," so this category will include proprietary typesetting systems. One can't set type without fonts, so we will address fonts here. We will also provide linksto related technologies and information such as digital type design and research
Batch Systems
Batch typographic systems are usually for specialized purposes: we use them when we haveparticular needs that exceed the capabilitiesof the interactive systems (which are usuallyeasier to use and cheaper to acquire).Examples are systems that must process very high volumes of type, or provide a high degree of control of the output, or allow conditional decisions
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TeX
TeX is a typesetting system by Donald Knuth which allows one to create sophisticated documents containing mathematics.
BibTeX,
Companies,
ConTeXt,
Converters,
Distributions,
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