Le 20/11/2022 à 15:40, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
I'm too tired to defend superior typographical output again and again since it is obviously only me who sees a benefit in it.
It's not that I don't see any benefit at all in superior typographical output. However, the benefits are tiny in my view, and they need to weighed against all the other variables (maintenance, speed, ...) For sure, typography is more important *in comparison to those factors* to you than to me (and probably all other developers).
For example, there are a lot of users who set the `PDFTEX` and `PDFLATEX` environment variables by default in their environment variables because they prefer to use, say, XeTeX for all docuents – in LaTeX, there are *really* differences depending on the engine.
Oh, really? Color me surprised. Are there tools other than build systems that read those environment variables? And users set them globally, in spite of the incompatibilities that exist between the TeX engines? The TeX world never ceases to puzzle me ... Best, Jean
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