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diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no5/pira.tex b/info/digests/texline/no5/pira.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a7f7f2b74 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texline/no5/pira.tex @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +\centerline{\bf Pira's Precursor} +\noindent +Pira (the Research Association for the +Paper \&\ Board, Printing, and +Packaging Industries) +is about to start publication of `Commentary' +which will cover the area of `Desktop Publishing'. + +They have already published a `Precursor Issue', +which made quite interesting reading. Especially +relevant to \TeX\ was their definition of desktop publishing, namely: +``any system which allows someone --- using a desktop +terminal --- to produce a document of typeset or near-typeset quality\dots +It can run on a microcomputer or a large mainframe.'' + +Less agreeable is the enormous sums which it will +take to receive this twice quarterly (I think that means 8 times a year) +publication. First-year subscription is {\it\$}350, although members of +Pira are elegible for a discount of {\it\$}70, making it a mere {\it\$}280. +I used to have this weird idea that electronic publication might +make things cheaper. Silly me. It therefore comes as no real surprise +that ``The contents of Pira Desktop Publishing Commentary may not be +reproduced by any means without the prior permission of the publisher in +writing''. I am relieved that I merely quote from the Precursor Issue, +and not the real thing. It is rather interesting how the idea of +emulating the Seybold Report mobilises money-spinning ideas. |