| 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
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
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
looked all I could find were pointers to books and links to Amazon.Com. Oh
yes, and some moldy academic papers in postscript format. I think it would
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)...
Then an Anonymous Coward replyed:
Is their a good online tutorial and reference for Haskell? Last time I
looked all I could find were pointers to books and links to Amazon.Com. Oh
yes, and some moldy academic papers in postscript format. I think it would
behoove those in the communities
| 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 of
pdf
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.
I know of a university library where books
od* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?
To: Kevin Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for
Haskell?
Date sent: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:51:57 +0100
From: Keith Wansbrough [EMAIL
Keith Wansbrough wrote:
looked all I could find were pointers to books and links to Amazon.Com. Oh
yes, and some moldy academic papers in postscript format. I think it would
It would be a good idea for tutorial papers to be available in PDF
format as well (and maybe even HTML if it
"Frank A. Christoph" wrote:
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
right now.
Then an Anonymous Coward replyed:
Is their a good online tutorial and reference for Haskell? Last time I
looked all I could find were pointers to books and links to Amazon.Com. Oh
yes, and some moldy academic papers in postscript format. I think it would
behoove those in the communities of
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