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		sakesun on April 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months > Not to start a flamewar, but why inDesign instead of plain old LaTeX? >> It's what I know. I used to be a graphic designer many years ago The author is a graphic designer turned into compiler engineer ? Wow. I'm impressed.

wdb on April 28, 2024 [–]

I can imagine it is much quicker to make a prepress PDF for a book in Indesign than LaTeX. I would have picked InDesign too (also former designer)

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