[edutex] Seeking feedback on a beginner's guide to LaTex

[Reinaldo]

What I could say, why not?

Let the games begin!



On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

> 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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