Re: TECH: more help?

From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:24 PM

> Whatever happened to Christophe, anyway?
He has decided to leave after a flame-war as far as I know.
He hasn't been much around on latex-for-conlangers as well
recently, so I guess Andreas is right.

> It's a far cry from WYSIWYG, but you can do nifty stuff.
Yes, it can come in handy. Unfortunately, MiKTeX's package
manager doesn't allow me to download additional macro
packages and install them offline. It says that any
directory I choose wouldn't be a proper directory to install
packages from. It only seems to accept proper full-blown
CTAN mirrors. Since my own computer hasn't got internet
access I feel cheated ...


From: "Philip Newton" <philip.newton@...>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 7:38 PM

> I think that was on purpose, on the principle that the
> maximum number
> of characters on a line for easy reading shouldn't be more
> than "x",
x = 60

> and that MS-Word-like 1-inch margins or so make for lines
> that are
> "too long" (at typical font sizes).
LaTeX also makes the spaces at the beginning of lines wider
for some reason IIRC.

> Heh, I suppose it depends on what your standards for
> "attractive" are
> -- I presume the wider margins are there because Dr. Knuth
> found them
> more attractive than the alternative :)
As for the Computer Modern fonts, I find at least the Roman
variants more elegant than good ol' Times New Roman. And
regarding the wider margins -- there are macros to
user-define them.


From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:02 PM

> You can convince pdfLaTeX to use any TTF font, but it
> doesn't know
> about your system's font folder, and it requires that you
> create
> several extra files to teach the LaTeX parts of the system
> about the
> font.  It's quite a pain, really.  I'm surprised no one is
> distributing an automated  "tell LaTeX about all my system
> fonts"
> program.
Sigh, yes. Even after doing the painful job to convert all
of the four styles of one font (Garamond in this case) so
that LaTeX can handle it, LaTeX did not recognize it as a
proper TTF font. It's really a pain.

Yours,
Carsten

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