[pdftex] TUGBoat - HTH's thesis

Kester Clegg kester at cs.york.ac.uk
Thu Jan 31 09:56:14 CET 2002


Hear, hear.   But be grateful you don't have people in your dept who use tex 
commands to allow them to make their documents look like their colleagues' 
Microsoft Word documents!  It's enough to make one weep....  
k.

> first time, i was glad that this document didn't 'scream' tex all over the
> place. Esp with regards to spacing, there are so many ill-designed, if
> designed at all tex docs around, that you make it sound like you're working
> in an environment with all-perfectly typeset documents. Get me right: when
> attention is being paid, one can let tex do a wonderful job, but >50% of
> the tex docs does not look wonderfull at all (the price of automation and
> haste). So, i think that in general, we can be glad that thanh's thesis
> looks okay. [i'm sure that most of my docs look less ok]
>
> Hans
>
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