[OS X TeX] overview of what TeX is producing

[Gerben Wierda]

On 1 Mar 2005, at 15:35, Jason Davies wrote:

>>
>> Somewhat. The memoir manual has a good discussion of page proportion,
>
>
> thanks (both) for those links...busy reading now....do we know what the
> opposition does? How does Word handle all these things? does it have 
> its
> own algorithms etc? presumably they're secret...:-)

Whatever they are they are far from robust. I was sitting in a 
Microsoft's HQ last week watching powerpoint presentations and at some 
point I was really distracted by words with the most ugly kerning 
imaginable, holes inside words so to speak (something which happens 
often in Microsoft products).

G

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