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The font hurts my eyes.

by wackget 3y ago

aquova 3y ago
Every Latex editor I've used uses (I think) that font by default
solardev 3y ago
Serifs were still kinda cool in 2002, I guess
- segfaultbuserr 3y ago
  It's a font resolution problem, serif fonts from a PDF generated by a modern LaTeX compiler like XeLaTeX are still more readable. If you zoom in, you'll see the fonts are bitmaps so it's low resolution with no anti-aliasing. Apparently, the original METAFONT Computer Modern is rasterized after rendering, meanwhile today most people have switched to its Type-I equivalent, which remains vectorized in PDFs.
- bombcar 3y ago
  It’s computermodern (default LaTeX and not adjusted for perfectly thin displays). https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48369/are-the-original-cm-fonts-better-than-the-current-type1-fonts https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48369/are-the-origin...
moritzwarhier 3y ago
It's a paper intended for printing, maybe not that suitable for scaling. I like this font.
dheera 3y ago
It's largely used as a status symbol to show that you know how to code in LaTeX. That said, something is wrong with this PDF, it looks like it has been rasterized somewhere in the process, which is not normal. LaTeX usually outputs nice clean curves on the text.
fnordpiglet 3y ago
Blame Knuth. Afaik the font used simulates closely the typesetting of the original art of programming edition that was printed using hot metal typesetting on an old monotype machine. Later these machines were eliminated for more modern techniques but he didn’t like the look so developed TeX to achieve a fidelity with those machines for art of computer programming later editions and new volumes. It has been almost universally adopted in academia since.
- epcoa 3y ago
  TeX use is minor to unheard of outside of Math, CS, Physics, +/- economics and engineering and a few other fields. A rarity in most life sciences, medicine, humanities where most journals will not even accept a final submission in TeX.
svat 3y ago
The main problem is the rasterization. There's an amazing tool to fix this, called pkfix: wget "https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/change2.ps" pkfix change2.ps change2-fixed.ps ps2pdf change2-fixed.ps Result: https://shreevatsa.net/post/2023-pkfix/change2-fixed.pdf https://shreevatsa.net/post/2023-pkfix/change2-fixed.pdf Side-by-side: https://shreevatsa.net/post/pkfix/ https://shreevatsa.net/post/pkfix/ (Barebones post with screenshot as I need to go now; will add more details later today.)
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The font hurts my eyes.

aquova 3y ago

Every Latex editor I've used uses (I think) that font by default

solardev 3y ago

Serifs were still kinda cool in 2002, I guess

segfaultbuserr 3y ago
It's a font resolution problem, serif fonts from a PDF generated by a modern LaTeX compiler like XeLaTeX are still more readable. If you zoom in, you'll see the fonts are bitmaps so it's low resolution with no anti-aliasing. Apparently, the original METAFONT Computer Modern is rasterized after rendering, meanwhile today most people have switched to its Type-I equivalent, which remains vectorized in PDFs.
bombcar 3y ago
It’s computermodern (default LaTeX and not adjusted for perfectly thin displays). https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48369/are-the-original-cm-fonts-better-than-the-current-type1-fonts https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48369/are-the-origin...

moritzwarhier 3y ago

It's a paper intended for printing, maybe not that suitable for scaling. I like this font.

dheera 3y ago

It's largely used as a status symbol to show that you know how to code in LaTeX. That said, something is wrong with this PDF, it looks like it has been rasterized somewhere in the process, which is not normal. LaTeX usually outputs nice clean curves on the text.

fnordpiglet 3y ago

Blame Knuth. Afaik the font used simulates closely the typesetting of the original art of programming edition that was printed using hot metal typesetting on an old monotype machine. Later these machines were eliminated for more modern techniques but he didn’t like the look so developed TeX to achieve a fidelity with those machines for art of computer programming later editions and new volumes. It has been almost universally adopted in academia since.

epcoa 3y ago
TeX use is minor to unheard of outside of Math, CS, Physics, +/- economics and engineering and a few other fields. A rarity in most life sciences, medicine, humanities where most journals will not even accept a final submission in TeX.

svat 3y ago

The main problem is the rasterization. There's an amazing tool to fix this, called pkfix: wget "https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/change2.ps" pkfix change2.ps change2-fixed.ps ps2pdf change2-fixed.ps Result: https://shreevatsa.net/post/2023-pkfix/change2-fixed.pdf https://shreevatsa.net/post/2023-pkfix/change2-fixed.pdf Side-by-side: https://shreevatsa.net/post/pkfix/ https://shreevatsa.net/post/pkfix/ (Barebones post with screenshot as I need to go now; will add more details later today.)

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