Friday, October 9, 2009

Typography: LaTeX, MS Office, and The Web

Here's a great read on the differences in font support between MS Office 2007 and LaTeX, and a recent presentation on typography for the web.

Typography has been around in some form or another for millenia and we've learned a thing or two in all those years. People who don't understand it or don't care about it are doomed to mess it up. Unfortunately that means HTML and MS Word have seriously botched it, and are only finally starting to get it right after nearly 20 years each.

As for this blog, don't even ask. The type layout is a disaster.

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