Re: A few notes on text
Jan Hardenbergh ([email protected])
Wed, 07 Jun 95 10:41:00 E
> HTML IS a *typesetting* solution as it is
> a presentation application. If one elects to use
> HTML directly, one inherits that. The current shootout
> between HTML and PDF indicates the awkward
> aspects of this. BTW, the early days of typesetting
> looked very little like current HTML. The middle days
> (somewhere between Unix utilites and DS-Runoff) looked
> like HTML, and then only superficially.
HTML is perhaps a text presentation system. Typesetting
implies that one has more control than HTML allows.
Can anyone give a quick description of the text encodings
possible in Adobe's PDF? That seems to be another
system gaining widespread acceptance.
-Jan