Semi-Myth: Lights Out Production
The Rumor: Formatting based strictly on tags is good enough;
we can
do lights-out composition
(This last is usually said by
composition vendors.)
Truth:
- Works really well with short or repetitious data in large quantities
- invoices, lists, reports
- medical records, insurance, financial statements
- Works pretty well for web publishing (elastic pages)
- Can work (with rerunning) for desktop-publishing quality
- Does not work for real high-end composition-system quality
- Repeat: Does not work for high-end typographic quality
