On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Taco Hoekwater
Alan Stone wrote:
The most important thing I understand from reading the fonts manual and the ConTeXt manual's old and new font chapter for the n-th time (lost count), is that explaining fonts and their use is not a piece cake. As such, every effort in trying to explain it in a way that's understandable to non initiated people can only be appreciated and welcomed.
Any remaining inclarity in any published documentation is by definition unexpected by the author of that documentation. So if something is unclear, you really have to mention specifically what it is exactly that is unclear. Otherwise, no progress will ever be made...
When I write, I try to guess the level of understanding/background of the
reader. With fonts (also graphics) it isn't appropriate to provide all the
background in a TeX documentation, so what is needed is a some
pointers to the required background material. I do expect a reader
who comes without the required background to find things they don't
understand, but the way to handle that is to send them to the appropriate
references.
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George N. White III