The Beauty of LaT e X

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Contents

1. Kerning

[Thanks to Mark Dancer and Nicholas Shera for pointing this out]

MS Word (wrong default kerning for the "Ta" letter pair):

[Adobe Garamond Pro, 48pt]

LaT e X (correct kerning for the "Ta" letter pair):

[Adobe Garamond Pro, 48pt]

2. Real small caps and titling caps

MS Word (fake small caps):

[Adobe Garamond Pro, 48pt]

LaT e X (real small caps):

[Adobe Garamond Pro, 48pt]

LaT e X (regular vs titling caps):

[Adobe Garamond Pro, 120pt]

3. Common ligatures

MS Word (common ligature errors):

LaT e X (correct use of ligatures):

4. Rare and ancient ligatures

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MS Word (text with no ligature):

[Adobe Minion Pro, 24pt] pdf doc

LaT e X (text with rare and old-style ligatures):

[Adobe Minion Pro, 24pt] pdf tex

5. Glyph variants

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LaT e X (example of font variants):

6. Transparency

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LaT e X (alpha transparency)

[Hoefler Text Italic, 48+pt] pdf tex

7. Line breaks, justification and hyphenation

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Advanced hyphenation/justification in LaT e X :

For visual examples of the differences between paragraph and line-by-line based justification algorithms, see this analysis by Maarten Sneep .

. For a browser-based implementation of the Knuth-Plass hyphenation algorithm check out this JavaScript library by Bram Stein.

8. Getting expert fonts

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Hoefler Text, Optima, Skia, Apple Chancery, Zapfino

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9. Typesetting with LaT e X : selected links

10. Acknowledgments

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11. Technical notes

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Adobe Garamond Pro, Adobe Minion Pro

Hoefler Text, Skia, Zapfino

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