[tex-live] Question about my user manual frontmatter

Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda cereda.paulo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 02:54:11 CEST 2015


Scratch my original plan, I just got trolled in here. :) It serves me 
right. :)

Cheers!

Paulo

Em 09-09-2015 19:32, Reinhard Kotucha escreveu:
> On 2015-09-09 at 16:36:07 -0300, Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda wrote:
>
>   > This is probably quite off-topic, but I'd like to hear from you if
>   > I should take this jest forward. Long story short, I was planning
>   > to include this note in the upcoming arara user manual:
>
>   > http://i.imgur.com/DzNJQhm.png
>
> Hi Paulo,
> it's probably better to convert the image to JPEG because that is what
> Windows users expect.
>
> PNG files look very strange to Windows users, not to mention vector
> graphics...  Optimize the JPEG for maximum compression, Windows users
> are accustomed to the artefacts and don't expect anything else.
>
>
>
>
> The text can be improved too.  Use full justification and set
>
>    \hyphenpenalty=10000
>    \tolerance=10000
>
> Microsoft Word users love interword glue.  The more the better.  This
> way they can imply that they are using professional software.
>
> Honestly, Computer Modern fonts are too common.  All Windows users use
> Comic Sans if they need an individual font.  Maybe you shouldn't be an
> exception.
>
>   > The icon was freely obtained from an image database and available
>   > with no restrictions whatsoever about its usage.
>
> No licence is worse than one that doesn't exist.  I fear that CTAN
> will reject your submission if you don't provide a reasonable license
>
>   > I don't want to have hungry lawyers sending me angry letters.
>
> exactly for this reason.
>
> Regards,
>    Reinhard
>


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