Re: Features needed for high-end DTP apps

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

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

> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 17:20, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > Other than speed consideratons, TeX line breaking is unsuitable
> > for interactive apps because it is very disconcerting to the user
> > to have parts of the paragraph before the cursor changing as
> > you edit.
> 
> I don't quite agree, here.  When I used InDesign 2 it didn't looked
> "very disconcerting".
> 
> Most of the time, new characters don't change previous line breaks, so
> overall it works in a pretty intuitive way.

I'm basing my comment on the using the editor in Chris Lahey's 'go', 
which used libhnj. It may be that InDesign does something a bit more
sophisticated.

Regards,
                                        Owen