26 Jul
2018
26 Jul
'18
3:24 a.m.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:52:06 +1000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey
<grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
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.)
It's also a single command to change your margins. Similar complexity,
a dozen chars and you're done.
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.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry(a)piermont.com
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).