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> Little that can't be done in ID with enough plug-ins.
I differ with Dick on this. The capacity of LaTeX when it comes to complex typesetting & fine typography is vastly superior to InDesign, even if you use ID plugins.
> But the question is somewhat misleading, because someone whose job it is
> to produce beautiful books wouldn't be considering FM in the first
> place.
I think DEK's often-cited sentence about TeX is misleading. Perhaps one should say that TeX is a 'typesetting system intended for the creation of books, using features and functions supporting a level of typographic quality that was once natural in composing rooms, but is nowadays not offered by software companies since their knowledge of fine typography is so limited.'
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