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              27 Jan 94 13:38:22 GMT."
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Date:         Thu, 27 Jan 1994 15:22:48 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Re: article."style"
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Paul Taylor writes:
|> PS From the point of view of the "design" implicit in the standard
|> styles, the principle that they should look as horrible as possible seems
|> not so unreasonable. Then people will be forced to think about design.

On the contrary: people tend _not_ to think about design whatever the
circumstances (witness the regular stream of ghastly stuff that comes out
of word-processors, where people think themselves forced to design on the
fly).

If the standard LaTeX styles are ghastly, then the vast majority of LaTeX-
mediated typesetting will be ghastly, as a result of this lack of thought.

Robin
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