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>>>>>> Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@c...>: > >> David Megginson writes: > >>> Note that the common thread running through these examples is a >>> sacrifice in quality in exchange for an increase in quantity -- in >>> other words, a democratization of knowledge. > >> and is this regarded as a good thing, then? > Yes, in my book. Advanced typography can be a bit like Etudes by Chopin. Their "beauty" can lie more in the complexity of the rendering them than in the rendering itself. Such beauty is apparant to, and appreciated by, a limited and specialist audience. Non-specialists are as deaf to the subtleties of advanced typography as they are to the subtleties of advanced musical forms. And the world is world is full of non-specialists:-) regards, http://www.pyxie.org - an Open Source XML Processing library for Python *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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