[edutex] Seeking feedback on a beginner's guide to LaTex
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Wed Feb 14 22:45:19 CET 2018
Hi Matt,
https://assets.bitbashing.io/misc/latex-book.pdf
My general comment is: more examples, less text.
pf> xelatex ... pdflatex
There is no point in discussing microtypography at all with xelatex. It
only supports kerning, not font expansion, which is the interesting part.
I think there is a point in mentioning microtypography ... only to the
extent of saying "\usepackage{microtype}" can eliminate lots of overfull
hboxes without rewriting -- when using pdflatex|lualatex, not xelatex.
Intro users do not need to know anything more in a document like this.
pf> biblatex/biber ... bibtex
I beg to differ. For several reasons, but the main one is that
biber only runs on extremely late-version os's, while bibtex runs on
everything. -k
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