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Am I having a stroke or are the examples not looking good? Subtle kerning issues and the page layout reminds me of a Word letter page. Maybe I'm not understandi

by tokai 4y ago

Am I having a stroke or are the examples not looking good? Subtle kerning issues and the page layout reminds me of a Word letter page. Maybe I'm not understanding its potential.

replwoacause 4y ago
Yeah I wasn't impressed with the examples either.
ifreund 4y ago
Maybe try opening the PDF instead of the PNG, the PNG images of text look off to me as well but the font rendering in the PDF looks fine.
- tokai 4y ago
  I dunno - that doesn't help anything with the layout. I still see overlapping text, tables with crooked columns, bad spacing between paragraphs and titles. The kerning got better, even though there is still something wrong with the stroke weight of the font. Maybe its just a really bad font, and not something related to Sile. Choosing a bad font to showcase a typesetting system is a bit of a redflag imo.
  - Semaphor 4y ago
    In case someone is wondering, here’s a table from the doc book example: [0] FWIW, in FF, Win the PDF fonts have aliasing issues when not zoomed in, Sumatra PDF looks much better. [0]: https://i.imgur.com/EERxV4W.png https://i.imgur.com/EERxV4W.png
  - chipotle_coyote 4y ago
    I think the font choice is a lot of it, at least. Sile may be a great typesetting system technically, but the examples kind of look, well, like they were put together by someone who maybe doesn't know much about good layout and typography.
    - Turing_Machine 4y ago
      Yes, the typeface is horrible, no question about it, but the other issues mentioned are definitely also there.
  - gort19 4y ago
    You’re not wrong. They look absolutely terrible, and frankly, much worse than just using Word or Pages. A big reason why people love TeX is the quality of the output.
WithinReason 4y ago
I think most of the problem is the font they use
thrown_22 4y ago
I don't know enough about the system, but good text justification is only the first step in a good document. TeX, through LaTeX and the various report/book/etc environments has centuries of man time dedicated to getting the best possible output for a given document type.
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by tokai 4y ago

Am I having a stroke or are the examples not looking good? Subtle kerning issues and the page layout reminds me of a Word letter page. Maybe I'm not understanding its potential.

replwoacause 4y ago

Yeah I wasn't impressed with the examples either.

ifreund 4y ago

Maybe try opening the PDF instead of the PNG, the PNG images of text look off to me as well but the font rendering in the PDF looks fine.

tokai 4y ago
I dunno - that doesn't help anything with the layout. I still see overlapping text, tables with crooked columns, bad spacing between paragraphs and titles. The kerning got better, even though there is still something wrong with the stroke weight of the font. Maybe its just a really bad font, and not something related to Sile. Choosing a bad font to showcase a typesetting system is a bit of a redflag imo.
- Semaphor 4y ago
  In case someone is wondering, here’s a table from the doc book example: [0] FWIW, in FF, Win the PDF fonts have aliasing issues when not zoomed in, Sumatra PDF looks much better. [0]: https://i.imgur.com/EERxV4W.png https://i.imgur.com/EERxV4W.png
- chipotle_coyote 4y ago
  I think the font choice is a lot of it, at least. Sile may be a great typesetting system technically, but the examples kind of look, well, like they were put together by someone who maybe doesn't know much about good layout and typography.
  - Turing_Machine 4y ago
    Yes, the typeface is horrible, no question about it, but the other issues mentioned are definitely also there.
- gort19 4y ago
  You’re not wrong. They look absolutely terrible, and frankly, much worse than just using Word or Pages. A big reason why people love TeX is the quality of the output.

WithinReason 4y ago

I think most of the problem is the font they use

thrown_22 4y ago

I don't know enough about the system, but good text justification is only the first step in a good document. TeX, through LaTeX and the various report/book/etc environments has centuries of man time dedicated to getting the best possible output for a given document type.

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