5 Oct
2011
5 Oct
'11
8:32 p.m.
On 05/10/11 11:05 PM, David Griffith wrote:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 10/05/2011 03:51 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
>> 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.
--Toby
I often get comments of "That looks nice. How'd you get it to look so
good?" regarding my LaTeX stuff.