the beauty of LaTeX
January 27th, 2007I recently found a very nice site about the beauty of LaTeX. It does a close comparison of the type of output you get with LaTeX as opposed to what you normally get with a program like Microsoft Word. There is also another nice article that it links to near the bottom comparing hyphenation using several different typesetting and word-processing programs. I will let you read about the rest yourself:
http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex
Danny Reeves wrote:
Good points, although I don’t understand the value of “fi” and “fl” ligatures. MS Word’s rendering makes more sense to me. (More than made up for by all the other ugly crap MS Word does, of course, compared to LaTeX.)
Deep Thoughts by Robert Felty » Blog Archive » pgf, xetex, and landscape wrote:
[...] which allows one to use any old font with latex, and do some really fancy things as well (see The beauty of LaTeX). And finally, I am working on a greeting card, which I want to print in landscape mode. To do all [...]
Tina Anderson wrote:
MS Word has a lot of annoying features, but I still prefer it to LaTex. Maybe I just need more time to get used to it.