14 Apr
2017
14 Apr
'17
4:59 a.m.
On 2017-04-13 8:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Friday, 14 April 2017 at 1:22:59 +0200, Steffen
Nurpmeso wrote:
Yes, the font uniformity is unfortunate. Personally I think we're long
overdue for a replacement default typeface family, or better yet,
diversity (but the underlying engine I think is fine -- and so does
Adobe -- it powers InDesign's paragraph composer :)
--T
Toby Thain <toby(a)telegraphics.com.au>
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. Indeed, as a typographer, I believe details
matter, no matter what the
audience. I think Knuth feels the same way. :)
It is really perfectly looking. Maybe too perfect, in the
sense of, maybe even aseptic.
Greg
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