[TUHS] TeX/troff/typesetting markups - Re: SunOS 4 documentation

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Fri Apr 14 10:40:48 AEST 2017


On Friday, 14 April 2017 at  1:22:59 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>
>> 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.

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.

Greg
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