> So using a professional modern font and switching to one of the alternative > document classes floating around should provide you with a distinct look > quite easily. I'm mostly using the KOMA-Script classes (part of TeXLive), > which have a plethora of options to alter the standard look and have a more > modern looking standard anyway. So has memoir, too.
Thanks for pointing me out this styles, I'll definitely look at it closer. > But regarding "headings in Helvetica in fancy colours" -- maybe this is > "modern", but I doubt if it's good typography in most cases ... OK, maybe > your documents are in this category, but scientific article or decent book > layout should avoid such a mess (IMHO of course). Even while KOMA-Script > actually *has* sans serif headings as a standard, I most often switch to > serif headings. I've written my thesis in Xetex using Computer Modern with article style. I'm going to use this combination also in the future. I was just wondering how can I get results similar to eg. Smashing book (https://shop.smashingmagazine.com/smashing-book-eu.html) or HTML 5 for web designers (http://books.alistapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers), which were set in InDesign. Marcin -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex