Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by IshKebab on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:38PM (#13625554)

That's why I always install CMR in MS Word.

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by seanmcdirmid on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:45PM (#13625596)

Word kerning and hyphenation still sucks, so -10.

Seriously, there are many places (CS publishing) where there are biases against papers written in Word.

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by maverick_iceman on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:05PM (#13626418)

Very true. I'm unlikely to take an arXiv article seriously if it hasn't been typeset in LaTeX.

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by disgruntledphd2 on Monday February 13, 2017 @04:23AM (#13634090)

And yet, in other disciplines, Word is the standard and you get very, very strange looks if you use anything different.

Source: wrote a psychology PhD in LaTeX.

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by apricot on Monday February 13, 2017 @10:38AM (#13636022)

Isn't using LaTeX instead of Word in the DSM-5 already, right next to vi and Linux?

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @08:10AM (#13643240)

Fortunately, there's no entry for emacs, so I guess I'm safe for now....

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by Odenwaelder on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:42AM (#13627628)

I once made a visual comparison between Word and LaTeX using CMR: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/110219/14827

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by andrewshadura on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:10AM (#13626864)

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