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From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [COFF] roff vs. Tex (was: Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 22:52:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzyeem+D4F24LnmofNVc_Lr7zTs2heKwDCMBEjFNE4me2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180727012838.GD87618@eureka.lemis.com>

On 26/07/2018, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 July 2018 at  8:22:54 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
[...]
>> (I never use the CMR fonts except in my CV. There, it's a signal
>> that it was written in TeX.)
>
> Exactly.  And of course my aversion to TeX documents relates to
> exactly that look.  Probably there are many documents that I just
> don't recognize.

Amusingly (or not), a colleague told me that he only takes seriously
documents in CMR because all his professional journals are in CMR.
Personally, I use Times for legal folk and Palatino for others -- when
not forced to use Stutter (a.k.a. Word). that is.

N.


      reply	other threads:[~2018-07-27  2:52 UTC|newest]

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2018-07-23 16:41       ` [COFF] [TUHS] Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie crossd
2018-07-24  3:52         ` [COFF] roff vs. Tex (was: Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie) grog
2018-07-24  4:01           ` lm
2018-07-24 14:43             ` cym224
2018-07-24 10:00           ` ralph
2018-07-27  1:04             ` lm
2018-07-25 21:24           ` perry
2018-07-26  4:22             ` grog
2018-07-26  6:38               ` bakul
2018-07-26 12:22               ` perry
2018-07-27  1:28                 ` grog
2018-07-27  2:52                   ` cym224 [this message]

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