On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:49 PM Walt Mankowski via plug <
plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 02:43:18PM -0500, Casey Bralla (Mail List) via plug wrote:
> > I'm not really concerned about making HTML. I really just want some
> > type of "tagged" language so I can see the tags and understand how they
> > effect the text. HTML or XML seems like the way to do this, but it can
> > be 100% proprietary tags, as long as I can easily read them.
> >
> > My basic complaint with Libreoffice or Word is that it does stuff and I
> > haven't got a clue why it's doing it. (Word is really bad at this when
> > you are modifying someone else's template. Ugh!!)
>
> If it bothers you that a word processor does stuff and you don't have
> a clue why, then maybe TeX/LaTeX isn't the system for you! It's got
> its own ideas about how to best layout the pages in a document.
> Generally it does a great job. But sometimes you'll want to, say, put
> a figure at the top of one page, and LaTeX will insist it wants to put
> it on top of another page. Convincing it to put them where you want is
> a dark art.
>
> Walt
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I'm generally inclined to agree that LaTeX usually gets things right. However there are matters like the hideous red box that appears around hyperlinks by default. I came up with the following custom header for that reason:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[urw-garamond]{mathdesign}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
...adding the following if hyperlinks are used:
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\hypersetup{
colorlinks,
linkcolor={red!50!black},
citecolor={blue!50!black},
urlcolor={blue!80!black}
}
Note that if you want to use Garamond as seen here, it may be necessary to install additional packages.