[COFF] roff vs. Tex (was: Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie)

Nemo cym224 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 12:52:37 AEST 2018


On 26/07/2018, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 July 2018 at  8:22:54 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
[...]
>> (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.

Amusingly (or not), a colleague told me that he only takes seriously
documents in CMR because all his professional journals are in CMR.
Personally, I use Times for legal folk and Palatino for others -- when
not forced to use Stutter (a.k.a. Word). that is.

N.


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