Not off-topic: Wrong couple divorced after computer error by law firm Vardag's

Kaveh Bazargan kaveh at rivervalley.io
Sat Apr 20 01:40:53 CEST 2024


On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 00:10, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't seen a legal document that uses fine typography. I am pretty
> asure some exist.
>
>  We are talking about science and the ability to adjust things as minor as
> the centering of a formula inside a matrix, or adjusting kerning of indexes
> on a Christofell symbol, for example. These are the details that modifying
> TeX derived from XML is extremely cumbersome, expensive and unreliable.
>
>
Once you have converted to a TeX document and use a good style file, the
typography will be generally good. You only need to use manual adjustments
rarely.


> Paulo Ney
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 3:51 PM Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2024-04-19 at 14:50:02 -0700, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>>
>>  > I understand Kaveh, the conversion back to TeX is automatic, but the
>>  > results in terms of fine typography is disastrous,
>>
>> If we are talking about legal documents I suppose that nobody except
>> TeX users are interested in fine typography.  What's more important
>> here is that authenticity can be guaranteed.
>>
>>  > because you lose the ability to do fine detailing.
>>
>> Even if you configure TeX to be more tolerant it produces better
>> results than any other program.
>>
>> I fear that it's much more difficult to establish TeX in the world of
>> jurisdiction than in the world of science.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Reinhard
>>
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