We need only a few simple, structural elements and one most readable font family.

I agree, but these are easy things, so they should be easy to implement, right? Sometimes, they are not. See the examples I gave.

When you're up for individual, high quality design however, you will need specialized tools that let you do the design, not the markup (thinking of QuarkXpress, Freehand, Photoshop etc.)

However, these tools defy automatization. Sure, Photoshop has it's own scripts, but it cannot be scripted from outside, using e.g. perl. LaTeX is used a lot these days to generate documents that need to use a certain fixed layout. For example, think of generating a couple hundred PDF spec sheets for products out of a database.

Tools like LaTeX are not suitable for one-page, "screaming ad"-like design. They are meant for designs that are reused (like in a thesis). And that is where I think we need a tool that doesn't suck.

In reply to Re: Perl Typesetting by crenz
in thread Perl Typesetting by crenz

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