13 Apr
2017
13 Apr
'17
9:40 p.m.
On 2017-04-13 9:41 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
...
i have no idea of what happened on the TeX side in the last, say,
about 15 years. TeXLive has always been too large for me, i have
They have a small "basic" version with the essentials, a hundred
megabytes or so.
http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html
the KerTeX basics laying around since a few years,
just in case
i ever find time to come back to TeX.) This can be a problem for
quick use cases that do not allow proper reviews and fine-tuning,
the latter sometimes down to the paragraph level, dependent on the
material. In TeX this can be tuned more easily with conservative
values and looking out for "overfull boxes" (iirc), if such occur
at all, then.
My finding is that, with groff, i can produce papers (mostly
letters) of almost identical beauty with some fine-tuning, with
almost the identical number of "markup" (which is now also easily
typed with the american keyboard). And the fine-tuning i like,
because i adore the calligraphic as an art, as an act of devotion
of the calligrapher, to some higher spirit or the being as such,
and spending some seconds in some text is my simple Boche
equivalence to those fine spirits.
Indeed, as a typographer, I believe details matter, no matter what the
audience. I think Knuth feels the same way. :)
--Toby
--steffen