From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 14 17:14:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13870 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:14:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA13862; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA27618; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:44:24 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA15607; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:44:00 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981215114400.V17075@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:44:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , jcwells@u.washington.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kkeysler@nwlink.com Subject: Re: Smaller, Dedicated tools and Greg's Daemon News Article References: <19981214083023.C2587@freebie.lemis.com> <19981214183905.F17075@freebie.lemis.com> <199812141422.GAA26548@hub.freebsd.org> <19981215105936.N17075@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 01:45:43AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 15 December 1998 at 1:45:43 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Greg Lehey 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