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Re:The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression by crumpled on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:49PM (#37068191)
I looked at the PDF, and can confidently say I could typeset that in a word processor, using a stylesheet to sustain it.

That's not what they did, apparently.

The document properties call out https://cairographics.org

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Re:The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression by kenferry on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @05:27PM (#37068679)
Cairo’s a couple layers down from what you’re talking about. It’s the actual glyph rendering.
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Re:The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression by crumpled on Thursday August 10, 2023 @09:25AM (#37075857)
Yeah. It's just a clue indicating they didn't use a word processor.
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