Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:44:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, jcwells@u.washington.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kkeysler@nwlink.com Subject: Re: Smaller, Dedicated tools and Greg's Daemon News Article Message-ID: <19981215114400.V17075@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzp3e6ikzbc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 01:45:43AM %2B0100 References: <19981214083023.C2587@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812132318160.6577-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <19981214183905.F17075@freebie.lemis.com> <199812141422.GAA26548@hub.freebsd.org> <19981215105936.N17075@freebie.lemis.com> <xzp3e6ikzbc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Tuesday, 15 December 1998 at 1:45:43 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: >> Thats where I came from before going to TeX. Possibly I didn't stay >> long enough, but one problem I have with just about all *TeX-formatted >> documents is that they shout ``look, I was formatted with TeX''. I >> know that this can be fixed, but I haven't seen many documents which >> have been fixed. > > ...because the default font is Computer Modern, which was designed by > Donald Knuth and is (to the best of my knowledge) only used by *TeX. > There are plenty of other fonts available; I usually prefer Lucida > Bright (as an added bonus, Lucida Bright is much easier to read in > e.g. xdvi and ghostview than Computer Modern) That's one of the reasons. Another is the layout. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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