On 2/22/2016 5:36 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

Hello,

I was dismayed to read the February newsletter published by a large University: the attached extract shows a nice example of the quality of the typesetting... It is in French, but that doesn't matter, anyone can see the result independent of the language.

I share it with the ConTeXt list as we see more and more examples like this, and the sad thing is that most readers think that they could care less. Are readers (and writers) really becoming so sloppy? Have we become so perverted by poor rendering by HTML engines that we now will accept anything?

that really looks bad i always wonder why nowadays there is so much talk about (in nl) dyslexia and compensation programs at schools while at the same time most texts are so badly done that nothing can compensate anyway i must admit that i often don't buy a what looks like an interesting book simply because there is that inconsistent (letter)spacing and stretching combined with avoiding hyphenation going on (ok, th ebenefit is that my reading backlog grows a bit slower)

I do not know about others, but I find it extremely difficult to read newspapers (or much anything else) online.

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