On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:54 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM, William Adams
> wrote:
>> On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>>
>>> Personally, I would not mind if XeTeX went into maintenance mode. I like
>>> such stability. It already has a g
Mu EUR 0,02 :
Chris Travers wrote:
A couple things I'd point out. TeX makes it possible to create
beautiful books. LaTeX makes it possible to create beautiful books
easily.
but encourages users to create ugly ones.
Why do I say this ? Well, a user wishing to typeset a book
using TeX has t
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
wrote:
> Mu EUR 0,02 :
>
> Chris Travers wrote:
>
>> A couple things I'd point out. TeX makes it possible to create
>> beautiful books. LaTeX makes it possible to create beautiful books
>> easily.
>
> but encourages users to creat
Chris Travers wrote:
I think you are assuming a lot about knowledge of book design. The
LaTeX styles out of the box are a bit formal. I think the margins are
too wide, and I prefer different fonts But I would hardly call
them "ugly" ...
OK. one quote from my 1993 paper "Book Design fo
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
wrote:
> Mu EUR 0,02 :
>
> Chris Travers wrote:
>
>> A couple things I'd point out. TeX makes it possible to create
>> beautiful books. LaTeX makes it possible to create beautiful books
>> easily.
>
> but encourages users to creat
2011/10/29 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) :
>
>
> Chris Travers wrote:
>
>> I think you are assuming a lot about knowledge of book design. The
>> LaTeX styles out of the box are a bit formal. I think the margins are
>> too wide, and I prefer different fonts But I would hardly call
>> them
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Andy Lin wrote:
> This is actually the reason I abandoned developing the map file
> further. I had started based on the textipa replacements that I knew,
> and then I discovered all the additional commands and realized that
> they could not be implemented by TECkit
XeTeX font support is heaps better and stable than what luaotfload
package offers and I guess that is why many users still like using xetex
instead luatex. I personally believe that it is a bad practice that
luaotfload just copies ConTeXt code, it should not be deeply dependent on
ConTeXt because
2011/10/30 Daniel Greenhoe :
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Andy Lin wrote:
>> This is actually the reason I abandoned developing the map file
>> further. I had started based on the textipa replacements that I knew,
>> and then I discovered all the additional commands and realized that
>> they
