Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-24 Thread Helge Hafting
Wolfgang Keller wrote: Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Helge Hafting

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-24 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Good? It depends. For me the version from CTAN is ok. ;- Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-24 Thread Helge Hafting
Wolfgang Keller wrote: Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Helge Hafting

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-24 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Good? It depends. For me the version from CTAN is ok. ;- Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-24 Thread Helge Hafting
Wolfgang Keller wrote: Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good latex support for it? Helge Hafting

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-24 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> > Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur. > > Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good > latex support for it? "Good"? It depends. For me the version from CTAN is ok. >;-> Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE!

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hi, What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond of the CM fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to them. I've heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi mentioned (lucida?) but I'm not sure. Garamond Condensed, but I can´t get for

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. ;- On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. [...] If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. There is also a free clone called Bitstream Classical Garamond which can be found on old Corel-Draw-CDs (4 and 8, AFAIK; I have

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 August 2009 14:08:26 Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. ;- On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next)

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hi, What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond of the CM fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to them. I've heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi mentioned (lucida?) but I'm not sure. Garamond Condensed, but I can´t get for

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. ;- On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. [...] If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. There is also a free clone called Bitstream Classical Garamond which can be found on old Corel-Draw-CDs (4 and 8, AFAIK; I have

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 August 2009 14:08:26 Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello, What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. ;- On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next)

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Hi, > > What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond > of the CM > fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to > them. I've > heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi > mentioned > (lucida?) but I'm not sure. Garamond Condensed, but I can´t

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, > What are the best fonts fdor readability. It depends. >;-> On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Wolfgang Keller wrote: > Hello, > >> What are the best fonts fdor readability. > > [...] > If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as > book font. There is also a free clone called Bitstream Classical Garamond which can be found on old Corel-Draw-CDs (4 and 8, AFAIK; I

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 23 August 2009 14:08:26 Wolfgang Keller wrote: > Hello, > > > What are the best fonts fdor readability. > > It depends. >;-> > > On the output medium, the output process, the specific application... > > If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book > font. And

Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-22 Thread L Duperval
Hi, What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond of the CM fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to them. I've heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi mentioned (lucida?) but I'm not sure. Comments? Is there a site that discusses this and

Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-22 Thread L Duperval
Hi, What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond of the CM fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to them. I've heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi mentioned (lucida?) but I'm not sure. Comments? Is there a site that discusses this and

Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

2009-08-22 Thread L Duperval
Hi, What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond of the CM fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to them. I've heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi mentioned (lucida?) but I'm not sure. Comments? Is there a site that discusses this and