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Ligatures, kerning, hyphenation, etc. can be enabled in Word: http://jeffhuang.com/better_word_papers.html http://jeffhuang.com/better_word_papers.html It's ju
by flowereater 16y ago
Ligatures, kerning, hyphenation, etc. can be enabled in Word:
http://jeffhuang.com/better_word_papers.html http://jeffhuang.com/better_word_papers.html
It's just not on by default which is a shame.
- icarus_drowning 16y agoHas anyone done a comparison on how well the kerning/hyphenation/etc. compare to TeX's? As I understand it, even some commercial packages that are designed for this sort of thing still fail to match TeX's. I could be wrong there, however.
- Splines 16y agoAlso, the component that powers Word's text layout also does it for IE7/IE8/IE9, WPF and Silverlight (and maybe more, I don't know). I've heard that Word doesn't play as well with the text layout component as the component authors would prefer. It's possible that this will improve in the future. As for TeX vs Word, that's a great question. I know that the authors of Word's text layout engine are familiar with Knuth's dead-tree works on typography, but beyond that, I don't know.
- flowereater 16y agoIt would be great if someone out there did a blind test of Word vs LaTeX layout. It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult -- just get a few pages of text from Gutenberg and render it in both Word and LaTeX.