Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

[David Kastrup]

Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:

> 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…  ;)

The sweet spot is nothing to implement: it's an emergent measure from
the respective qualities of tweaking tools and algorithms.

I tend to view the tweaking tools as being more on the sickly-sweet side
since the real problems come after you think you are done.

-- 
David Kastrup