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From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Subject: [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - Re: SunOS 4 documentation
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:00:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5fa6509-2358-c70b-8f5f-67589f4ac6b7@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfiPzxZneB1gHn5C+sOpvm5-+t68-H5-mrznS0VrWVrOjP30w@mail.gmail.com>

On 2017-04-13 9:59 PM, Nemo wrote:
> On 13 April 2017 at 20:40, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You do have your choice of fonts. (I prefer palatino for text and euler for
> math.  I haven't used cm fonts in decades.)

Yes, but not enough authors avail themselves of this -- and that's 
understandable -- not everyone is sensitive to such things.

--T

>
> N.
>



  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-14  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-12 21:54 [TUHS] " Cory Smelosky
2017-04-12 22:55 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-04-12 23:31   ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-13  2:13     ` Toby Thain
2017-04-13  2:16       ` Steve Nickolas
2017-04-13  2:25         ` [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Toby Thain
2017-04-13 14:25           ` Nemo
2017-04-13 15:41           ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-04-13 16:35           ` Toby Thain
2017-04-13  2:20       ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2017-04-13 13:41         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-13 15:40           ` [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Toby Thain
2017-04-13 23:22             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-14  0:40               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-14  1:59                 ` Nemo
2017-04-14  3:00                   ` Toby Thain [this message]
2017-04-14  2:59                 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-14 13:38                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-14 13:56                   ` Michael Kerpan
2017-04-14 16:55                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-14 22:24                     ` Toby Thain
     [not found]                       ` <CAHfSdrVAnPn3hwFR0ie0o-yuqGX0hu+LWweNZngpoY4=efTSaA@mail.gmail.com>
2017-04-15 14:23                         ` Michael Kerpan
2017-04-15 15:09                           ` Toby Thain
2017-04-15 16:07                           ` [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Mutiny 
2017-04-15 21:48                             ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-15 22:12                               ` ron minnich
2017-04-16  0:02                                 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-15 15:27                       ` [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Clem Cole
2017-04-15 17:05                         ` Toby Thain
2017-04-15 17:10                         ` Toby Thain
2017-04-18  4:49                         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-14 13:07             ` Wolfgang Helbig
2017-04-14 20:56               ` Clem Cole
2017-04-16 13:42               ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-04-13 14:14         ` [TUHS] " Nemo
2017-04-13 16:34           ` Steve Simon
2017-04-13 23:14             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-14  8:30               ` Steve Simon
2017-04-14 13:21                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-13 13:28       ` John Labovitz
2017-04-17 18:56 [TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - " Doug McIlroy

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