6 Oct
2011
6 Oct
'11
10:20 p.m.
On 05/10/11 11:54 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/05/2011 11:32 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
That's awesome, I didn't know that.
I'm quite certain there'd be enormous improvements if some people in
that group would be introduced to the people maintaining Word. One of
the most consistent things I've seen in consumer-level computing is that
Word documents look just awful.
It is true that the two groups don't seem to talk enough; perhaps
because the typographers would probably say: "Throw out the whole mess
and start over."
--T
>>
It's odd, but I find it a lot easier to get the results I want in
>> TeX/LaTeX than my Word-using friends do with Word.
>
> And it actually LOOKS good. I've often wondered if Microsoft has hired
> ANYONE who knows anything at all about typography.
Yes, they have a Typography department. <snark> One of its famous
tenants is the man who designed Comic Sans, Vincent Connare. </snark>
But to give credit where it's due, despite the awfulness of Windows XP's
font rasteriser (did they ever fix that up in W7?), they do have some
quantity of typographic talent in house. They produced an interesting
(if little known) tool in Visual TrueType, too; and were of course
participants in the standardisation (!!) of the very useful TrueType
format.
-Dave