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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by JoshTriplett on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:37PM (#19426918)
I personally find Computer Modern quite pleasant to read and work with.

Apart from personal preference, why avoid Computer Modern?

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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by analog31 on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:18PM (#19427194)
It shows that you took an extra year to write your dissertation. ;-)

Just kidding, but I got my degree 25 years ago, and at the time, the students who tried to have a perfectly typeset document spent a lot of time on that pursuit.

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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by andreasvc on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:59AM (#19429412)
It is an extremely thin font which makes it unsuitable for screen reading.
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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by jjgreen on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:30AM (#19429807)
A lot of the time, the TeX output target is paper, and there (with a decent resolution printer) it looks rather splendid (in my view anyway).
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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by 0-_-0 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:42PM (#19433294)
For me the horizontal line in the letter "e" often disappears with smaller text sizes.
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