27 Jul
2018
27 Jul
'18
7:28 a.m.
On Thursday, 26 July 2018 at 8:22:54 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:22:20 +1000 Greg
'groggy' Lehey
<grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
They were the ideal reference when I used TeX. That was my point.
Clearly it has improved, but too late for me.
On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 17:24:40 -0400,
Perry E. Metzger
wrote:
It's true, books that are thirty years old and over might not be the
best reference for the software. 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.)
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, Even back then, though, the commands involved were
pretty
simple. They just weren't mentioned in the books you read, probably
because in 1986 and the like there weren't an abundance of fonts
available.
They were available for groff, and O'Reilly gave me a set of Garamond
Light (their fonts of the day). I briefly considered using them for
TeX, but that ended up in the "too hard" basket.
(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.
Greg
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