From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:40:48 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - Re: SunOS 4 documentation In-Reply-To: <20170413232259.53GdF%steffen@sdaoden.eu> References: <1492034056.640146.943005264.77830DD6@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1492037730.652251.943052704.39811DAC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20170412233158.GB14143@mcvoy.com> <08eb864b-784b-28e5-63b3-420cfbc5f684@telegraphics.com.au> <20170413022029.GM14143@mcvoy.com> <20170413134151.c2Hvf%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20170413232259.53GdF%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Message-ID: <20170414004048.GC28292@eureka.lemis.com> On Friday, 14 April 2017 at 1:22:59 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Toby Thain wrote: > >> Indeed, as a typographer, I believe details matter, no matter what the >> audience. I think Knuth feels the same way. :) > > It is really perfectly looking. Maybe too perfect, in the > sense of, maybe even aseptic. My issue with TeX output using standard parameters is that it reaches out, grabs you by the throat and says "I was formatted with Tex". That would be mainly the Computer Modern fonts, but I haven't seen that with any other text formatting software. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: