Talk of quick responses!
Thanks to those who responded to my question. Extra special thanks to the
kind gentleman who gently pointed me to the bookshelf section of the web
page which, had I paid attention, would have answered my question for me. :-)
I now have the Thompson book on order. I
| Is this why the PDF version of the Haskell report looks so
strange? On my
| system (Win98 and Acrobat Reader 4.0) it looks like the baseline
| oscillates up and down between each letter. I find it very difficult to
| read.
I made a pdf version of the Haskell report using pdflatex; fans
Byron Hale wrote:
In my experience, people, talking as the "Coward" did, are engaged in a
turf war. Nothing that you do will satisfy them, because their apparent
objective is not their real one. However, the appearance criticism may be
something to actually be addressed.
Here in Silicon
To. all
I prefer to see at a time both the contents of Haskell98 report
and library on Web. I combined both contents into one, and
have used it. It is useful because, usually, I do not refer them
separately.
http://pllab.kaist.ac.kr/groups/haha/haskell98/
Kwanghoon Choi
Francis Girard wrote:
Maybe this can help (this is about LaTeX and not Haskell ...)
The TeX typesetting system uses a bitmap font called Computer
Modern invented by D. Knuth. Here is a quotation from "A guide to LaTeX" by
Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly, Addison-Wesley, 3rd edition, 1999
"Rob MacAulay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,
Keith Wansborough wrote :
It would be a good idea for tutorial papers to be available in PDF
format as well (and maybe even HTML if it doesn't look too ugly)...
PostScript files are really only accessible to CS people-in-the-know;
the average
These fonts are especially recommended for use with pdfTeX.
In fact, for
PDF output one should not even consider applying the bitmap fonts for they
produce terrible results, whether generated with pdfTeX or with the
Distiller program.
Is this why the PDF version of the Haskell report
I'm trying to crack into this functional programming paradigm. My interest
in it was piqued by my experiences with Dylan which seems to be an impure
functional programming language with a large number of hygienic macros
which make it imitate an imperative, OOP language.
After doing some digging
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Rob MacAulay wrote:
Thanks for the info. However, I think these are only useful if one
has the original TeX source. If one only has the translated
postscript, the fontas are embedded (so Acrobat Reader tells me..)
as type 3 fonts.
I found a link to something called
