26 Jul
2018
26 Jul
'18
10:22 a.m.
On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 17:24:40 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:52:06 +1000 Greg
'groggy' Lehey
<grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
That's the case now, I assume. I've just dragged out the TeXbook
(February 1989), LaTeX user's guide and reference (referring to LaTeX
2.06 (April 1986)) and "TeX for the Impatient" (1990). None of them
mention this command, and after 20 minutes of searching I wasn't able
to find any reference in any of them to any font family except CM, and
thus also no way to change to one. About the only titbit I found was
that you needed separate commands for each font at each size, and that
this was impractical. A far cry from troff's .ps command.
On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 12:41:46 -0400, Dan
Cross wrote:
It's a single command most of the time to change font.
\usepackage{palatino}
for example. (That's at the start of many of my documents.) On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:56 AM Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
My big issue was that it produces nicer output than
TeX. In those
days at any rate you could tell TeX output a mile off because of the
excessive margins and the Computer Modern fonts. Neither is
required, of course, but it seems that it must have been so much
more difficult to change than it was with [gt]roff (or that the
authors just didn't care). I don't love TeX's command language,
it's gross, but it's not hard
to do simple things like that, and the typesetting results are kind
of remarkable if you know what you're doing. The most beautiful
books in the world (by a lot) are typeset in modern TeX. I don't
even think you can do microtypography in any troff that I've seen,
and forget things like having both lining and text figures in the
same document.
It's possible, and I've done it (even simulating the TeX" symbol).
But then, I've written my own macros, and I found it easier than
messing with TeX.
Still, this isn't a TeX-bashing session. I was just explaining why I
changed.
Greg
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