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

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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 Lyx.
 
Marcelo


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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.

Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with the 
best reputation for readability.

Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

-- 
NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

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 Corel Draw 4).
These old CDs can be purchased at Ebay, for instance. The font metrics
needed for use with LaTeX can be found at http://www.gaehrken.de/tex/.

Of course this is just a clone of the 'old' Sabon and not of Sabon Next.

Regards,
Dominik.-

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) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart
 to Sabon.

 Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with
 the best reputation for readability.

 Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

The Century Schoolbook that comes with LyX works very well for me.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

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 Lyx.
 
Marcelo


  Yahoo! Cocina

Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina.


http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

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.

Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with the 
best reputation for readability.

Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

-- 
NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

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 Corel Draw 4).
These old CDs can be purchased at Ebay, for instance. The font metrics
needed for use with LaTeX can be found at http://www.gaehrken.de/tex/.

Of course this is just a clone of the 'old' Sabon and not of Sabon Next.

Regards,
Dominik.-

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) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart
 to Sabon.

 Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with
 the best reputation for readability.

 Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

The Century Schoolbook that comes with LyX works very well for me.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

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 Lyx.
 
Marcelo


  Yahoo! Cocina

Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina.


http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

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.

Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with the 
best reputation for readability.

Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

-- 
NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE!

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 Corel Draw 4).
These old CDs can be purchased at Ebay, for instance. The font metrics
needed for use with LaTeX can be found at http://www.gaehrken.de/tex/.

Of course this is just a clone of the 'old' Sabon and not of Sabon Next.

Regards,
Dominik.-

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) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart
> to Sabon.
>
> Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with
> the best reputation for readability.
>
> Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

The Century Schoolbook that comes with LyX works very well for me.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt