Re: Features needed for high-end DTP apps

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

Joaquín Cuenca Abela <cuenca pacaterie u-psud fr> writes:

> There is too much stuff.  To start with, pick current pdfTeX, and add:

What does pdfTeX do that TeX doesn't?

> * Non linear positioning of floating figures.  There has been a bit of
> research here, and it doesn't seems too hard to implement.  Basically
> you should put your figures in the right position in order to minimize
> the number of pages that the reader has to pass between the reference to
> a figure and the figure itself (taking in account double-sided
> documents, etc.).  TeX didn't did it in the first place because the
> memory requeriments of that were too high...

One reference is:

   Michael F. Plass: "Optimal Pagination Techniques for Automatic
   Typesetting Systems", CS Dept. Stanford University, 1981.


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