Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi all,

> The number we want to be talking about is maybe a tweak every few pages.
> A friendly tweaking tool is still nice for that, but it's not as
> important than when you are doing a hundred tweaks per page.
> 
> But if we are talking about a hundred tweaks per page, it is extremely
> unlikely that those tweaks are _not_ dealing with systematic problems,
> and dealing with systematic problems is something that the computer does
> with a lot less effort and boredom and tie-in than a human in the long run.

So the sweet spot is the convergence point of optimally-intelligent 
automatic/“systematic” algorithms and an optimally-user-friendly tweaking 
system…
Sounds dead simple to implement…  ;)

Cheers,
Kieren.