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Andrew Pam wrote:

>> There simply isn't software capable of taking a given marked-up document
>> and arbitrarily deciding how it would best be displayed in print:
>> you need a human to do that
>
> TeX

No. TeX is good, and it takes all the decisions it can, but there are still
things you have to explicitly tell it. Number of columns is a good example.

Cheers,
Nick

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