Hi Philip, Am 04.09.2010 um 19:33 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd):
> What exactly do you dislike about the use of sans serif for headings ? To my > mind, and in a scientific as opposed to artistic context, sans serif headings > with serif prose seem absolutely normal and fine. Am 04.09.2010 um 19:49 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): > For "scientific", read "technical", please. Pure conservatism, I suppose. I've always taken to the principle of not mixing fonts in one document without good reasons. I know that magazines and technical manuals (like the mentioned Smashbook) tend to use sans serif headings, the further ones for adornment, the latter ones for -- well, I can't think of any real reason at all (maybe to cover up the boring content?). But remember I'm not a technician or even scientist but a humanist, which maybe explains a lot ... I even despise the usual parskip instead of parindents without a lot of spacing between paragraphs, because it makes an uneven flow in reading. Anyway, it's a good thing that LaTeX/XeTeX users have the choice to follow their own principles. Joachim -- Dr. Joachim Trinkwitz E-Mail: j...@uni-bonn.de Institut für Germanistik, Tel.: 0228-737565 Vergleichende Literatur- Fax: 0228-737479 und Kulturwissenschaft www.germanistik.uni-bonn.de der Universität Bonn 53012 Bonn -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
