Re: Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mikael Persson wrote:

> The thesis is available at

maybe we should collect such links on a wiki page

> http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/mp-thesis-final.pdf
> 
> and a short presentation of the third paper
> 
> http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/pres.pdf

> Some comments:
> * At our university the thesis should be printed on the (not really
> standard) G5 paper. No problem in defining and using it with ConTeXt.

just curious ... is it used more often or just at your universiy; it's 
no problem to add an extra papersize definition

> * The bibliography uses Taco's module. I am happy of being able to
> have different bibliographies in one file.
> * As a mathematician I was a bit tired of the computer modern fonts (I
> really like them, but I see them to often), so I decided to go with
> the utopia/fourier fonts. This forced me to work with mkii, since I
> did not get these fonts to work with mkiv (This is still a problem, I
> am not sure how to go on with it for future documents).

looks quite nice, i also like the font size

> * Typesetting math worked very smoothly. There is one place where I
> hade to add some negative vertical space (I could not reproduce this
> in a minimal file).
> * I'm very happy with the way MetaPost and ConTeXt work together.
> * The presentation is inspired by Thomas A. Schmitz' files at
> http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-2/schmitz/ (thanks!)
 >
> * The presentation uses Wolfram's Mathematica fonts which I find being
> very clear.

looks nice indeed; are there open type variants of those?


Hans

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