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* speaking of arch, not a TeX thing, but why is it "Noto Sans Symbols2" on debian, and "Noto Sans Symbols 2" on arch? lame.

* the font situation is vastly improved these days compared to when i started using LaTeX, as is Unicode and polyglottal support (polyglossia is good stuff. there's no need btw for using things like the arabxetex package, at least so far as i can tell--just properly set up polyglossia. i've got over thirty languages and over ten scripts in my ~400 page book, and it handles them all well. btw, noto is ugly as shit. don't use it except for things where you need the weird script coverage, but use it for all of them, so they hang together. i'm using Gentium Book Plus for my bulk, Noto Serif where i must, Noto Sans where Noto Serif fears to tread, and Adobe Source Code Pro for my monospace.

* the font situation is vastly improved these days compared to when i started using LaTeX, as is Unicode and polyglottal support (polyglossia is good stuff. there's no need btw for using things like the arabxetex package, at least so far as i can tell--just properly set up polyglossia. i've got over thirty languages and over ten scripts in my ~400 page book, and it handles them all well.) btw, noto is ugly as shit. don't use it except for things where you need the weird script coverage, but use it for all of them, so they hang together. i'm using Gentium Book Plus for my bulk, Noto Serif where i must, Noto Sans where Noto Serif fears to tread, and Adobe Source Code Pro for my monospace.

* the whole math font situation is insane, and i don't really understand it. if you're going to have a lot of inline math, and don't want it to blow your line heights out, try scaling it. for instance, i've got:

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 * speaking of arch, not a TeX thing, but why is it "Noto Sans Symbols2" on debian, and "Noto Sans Symbols 2" on arch? lame.
-* the font situation is vastly improved these days compared to when i started using LaTeX, as is Unicode and polyglottal support (polyglossia is good stuff. there's no need btw for using things like the arabxetex package, at least so far as i can tell--just properly set up polyglossia. i've got over thirty languages and over ten scripts in my ~400 page book, and it handles them all well. btw, noto is ugly as shit. don't use it except for things where you need the weird script coverage, but use it for all of them, so they hang together. i'm using Gentium Book Plus for my bulk, Noto Serif where i must, Noto Sans where Noto Serif fears to tread, and Adobe Source Code Pro for my monospace.
+* the font situation is vastly improved these days compared to when i started using LaTeX, as is Unicode and polyglottal support (polyglossia is good stuff. there's no need btw for using things like the arabxetex package, at least so far as i can tell--just properly set up polyglossia. i've got over thirty languages and over ten scripts in my ~400 page book, and it handles them all well.) btw, noto is ugly as shit. don't use it except for things where you need the weird script coverage, but use it for all of them, so they hang together. i'm using Gentium Book Plus for my bulk, Noto Serif where i must, Noto Sans where Noto Serif fears to tread, and Adobe Source Code Pro for my monospace.
 * the whole math font situation is insane, and i don't really understand it. if you're going to have a lot of inline math, and don't want it to blow your line heights out, try scaling it. for instance, i've got:

Latex joy of man's desiring: Difference between revisions

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