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#How to use small caps in word 2013 pdf#
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To give an example, here is a quick rep on how I’ve prepared the pdf’s.

Latex makes difficult things easy, and easy things very difficult.

“Quickly” changing the layout of your document is very difficult, and usually as time-consuming as setting it up in the first place.

However spending eighty percent of your time setting up your CV, and twenty percent on the actual content is the wrong way to go. Of course, if you are going to write your thesis or a book, a little bit time spent on setting up the document is easily justified. Time that is better spent on the actual content.

You’ll spend a lot of time setting up your document.

In fact, the opposite is true (see below). That’s something I read quite often, and it is a blatant lie. “You only specify what to do, and Latex does the layout for you”.These are issues I encounter again and again: Now, here are some reasons on why I think Latex is not optimal for smaller documents. Latex makes difficult things easy, and easy things very difficult In fact, the document looks quite decent, I think.

#How to use small caps in word 2013 full#

I did however switch the justification algorithm to the one of WordPerfect (File – > Options – > Advanced – > Layout Options – > Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows)Īll in all, while the typography of Latex is clearly superior, Word isn’t that bad anymore. Still ‘though, Word looks pretty decent, in my opinion. Full justification: Of course no other program comes close to Tex’s full justification algorithm.As done here with Tex for the letter “W”. Word does support drop-caps, but no advanced things like vertically adjusting the spacing between the lines and the letter in question. I can spot no obvious problems with kerning in the Word version except.Not all are properly set (see the „ffl“ in „baffled“ in Line 8), but this is simply a design choice (or a bug) of Tex-Gyre-Pagella, affecting both Tex and Word alike. Ligatures are available in both documents.I have no real clue why Word sticks to fake small caps, but I suspect backward compatibility issues. Word 2010 still doesn’t have true small caps, even though they are included in the OpenType font.

#How to use small caps in word 2013 pdf#

In particular Firefox‘ new built-in PDF reader seems to have some problems with font-hinting.

Here is the result for Latex, and here for Word – use Adobe Reader to ensure you’ll see the real thing. For the latter I simply included the package tgpagella. To not get distracted by different fonts, I’ve used the extended OpenType versions of URW Palladio (Tex-Gyre-Pagella) for both Word and Latex. I took the first two paragraphs from the fifth adventure of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes”. So to compare Tex and Word, I’ve prepared a small document. Word is notorious for having bad typography, but in actual fact, Word 2010 improved typography quite a bit by adding support for several advanced OpenType features, namely: My recommendation is: Definitely stick with Word (2010) if your document is small (i.e. And after toying around a little bit, I have to say that Word’s bad reputation isn’t justified at all. However I got so used to Latex, that after leaving university I was thinking of using Latex also for smaller documents letters, CVs, and the like. Of course there is no doubt that Latex is _the_ tool for larger documents, like a thesis or book. There are several pages in the net advocating the use of Latex quite loudly. In fact, I rewrote the whole thesis-document class of my faculty – the old one had several bugs, was originally created in the mid-90s and used pslatex, and just looked ugly. Probably during my university days, when I wrote lots of documents using Latex.