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Modded up for the courage of posting your own resume. Off top of my head - look at the right edge of your text. It doesn't look good. They have some work to do

by b0rsuk 15y ago

Modded up for the courage of posting your own resume. Off top of my head - look at the right edge of your text. It doesn't look good. They have some work to do on their line break algorithm. TeX, and LaTeX, take care of it so automatically and so well that you could put a ruler to it. It can even divide words into syllabes. Example here: http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/pp.pdf http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/pp.pdf And it's just the tip of the iceberg. There's a lot of typographic conventions developed by trial and error over centuries. They just look good or easier to read. More examples here, TeX Showcase: http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/ http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/

jvm 15y ago
With InDesign though he can easily fix that with manual line-breaking. I think that if you understand the typographical principles you're trying to deploy, you'll end up making it work, and if you don't you're likely to end up with glaring errors no matter what setup you use. (My resume is in latex, I'm just saying I think there's more than one way to skin the cat)
- b0rsuk 15y ago
  (weasel word) people think manual line-breaking is the thing that needs fixing :-).
Silhouette 15y ago
Off top of my head - look at the right edge of your text. It doesn't look good. They have some work to do on their line break algorithm. InDesign can use the Knuth-Plass line-breaking algorithm for its H&J. In this case, it looks like hyphenation has been disabled, so obviously that doesn't apply, though. TeX, and LaTeX, take care of it so automatically and so well that you could put a ruler to it. Until you get an overfull box that just ignores the right margin, anyway. :-) There's a lot of typographic conventions developed by trial and error over centuries. They just look good or easier to read. Or, in many cases, they are just folklore with no substantial evidence whatsoever to support them, propagated within a discipline notorious for confusing subjective/aesthetic preferences with facts, and placing undue weight on doing things the "correct" way without being able to demonstrate that any particular advantage results.

by b0rsuk 15y ago

jvm 15y ago

With InDesign though he can easily fix that with manual line-breaking. I think that if you understand the typographical principles you're trying to deploy, you'll end up making it work, and if you don't you're likely to end up with glaring errors no matter what setup you use. (My resume is in latex, I'm just saying I think there's more than one way to skin the cat)

b0rsuk 15y ago
(weasel word) people think manual line-breaking is the thing that needs fixing :-).

Silhouette 15y ago

Off top of my head - look at the right edge of your text. It doesn't look good. They have some work to do on their line break algorithm. InDesign can use the Knuth-Plass line-breaking algorithm for its H&J. In this case, it looks like hyphenation has been disabled, so obviously that doesn't apply, though. TeX, and LaTeX, take care of it so automatically and so well that you could put a ruler to it. Until you get an overfull box that just ignores the right margin, anyway. :-) There's a lot of typographic conventions developed by trial and error over centuries. They just look good or easier to read. Or, in many cases, they are just folklore with no substantial evidence whatsoever to support them, propagated within a discipline notorious for confusing subjective/aesthetic preferences with facts, and placing undue weight on doing things the "correct" way without being able to demonstrate that any particular advantage results.