Chris Travers wrote:
I think you are assuming a lot about knowledge of book design. The LaTeX styles out of the box are a bit formal. I think the margins are too wide, and I prefer different fonts.... But I would hardly call them "ugly" ...
OK. one quote from my 1993 paper "Book Design for TeX Users, part 1", and then I shut up and let others debate the point if they wish :
Knuth, in his closing exhortation, wrote: “GO FORTH now and create masterpieces of the publishing art.” Nowhere, so far as I can trace, did he write: “and let every one of them shriek ‘TEX’ from every page”. . .
http://www.ntg.nl/maps/19/10.pdf http://www.ntg.nl/maps/19/11.pdf ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
