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From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:24:54
Message-Id: 336701F3-06FA-4D3F-B24B-9A8B61D2052D@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] A few questions to our nominees by Luca Barbato
1 On 9 Jun 2008, at 14:18, Luca Barbato wrote:
2 >> The people who wrote PMS should be able to make the decision
3 >> for themselves(as they will be maintaining it) as to what language to
4 >> use.
5 >
6 > The main point being using latex prevents people from modify it.
7
8 Your opinion.
9
10 >> You don't *have* to read PMS in LaTeX,
11 >> which by the way makes my eyes bleed somewhat, you can read it in a
12 >> very
13 >> well done PDF.
14 >
15 > The pdf renders poorly on xpdf due the fonts latex has, usually I'd
16 > rather have plain text anyway.
17
18 Pointless nit.
19
20 - ferdy
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