Yeah, I'm realizing that my understanding of those of the complaints
was wrong. My next step when I get back to this is to try to get a
reasonably automatic setup for Redex that mimics that
\usepackage{pslatex} setting in latex (which is, I think what sigplan
uses).Robby On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > On Jun 27, 2014, at 4:47 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > >> This effect is, I believe, one of the >> main things people mean when they say that Redex's typesetting is ugly >> (and it is indeed ugly in larger quantities). > > > [[ Just now catching up ]] > > This is off topic in a sense but right on topic wrt the above quote. > When people dislike Redex in scribble or latex document, they are > saying that they chose some fonts (perhaps defaults) and that Redex > fragments look different than their context because Redex chose a > different font. Most latex users don't know much about fonts and > certainly don't know how to adjust Redex so it uses their latex > fonts. > > [[ I did some font loading and messing around in my TeX days and > young LaTeX days and I am honestly glad I forgot those details. I > am not looking forward to creating the .tex styles for 2e. ]] _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
