On 2/22/2016 5:36 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
Hello,
I was dismayed to read the February newsletter published by a large
University: the attached extract shows a nice example of the quality
of the typesetting... It is in French, but that doesn't matter, anyone
can see the result independent of the language.
I share it with the ConTeXt list as we see more and more examples like
this, and the sad thing is that most readers think that they could care
less. Are readers (and writers) really becoming so sloppy? Have we
become so perverted by poor rendering by HTML engines that we now will
accept anything?
that really looks bad
i always wonder why nowadays there is so much talk about (in nl)
dyslexia and compensation programs at schools while at the same time
most texts are so badly done that nothing can compensate anyway
i must admit that i often don't buy a what looks like an interesting
book simply because there is that inconsistent (letter)spacing and
stretching combined with avoiding hyphenation going on (ok, th ebenefit
is that my reading backlog grows a bit slower)
I do not know about others, but I find it extremely difficult to read
newspapers (or much anything else) online.
here (at pragma) we actually prefer a paper newspaper because now we see
it laying on the table and we browse and discuss what we read when we
start the day and/or while drinking coffee etc etc (i'm also an old
fashion tv news watcher)
Hans
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