Re: Cover page

[Simon Albrecht]

On 12.09.2018 00:48, Noeck wrote:
> I guess the wording might be just a bit misleading, but I disagree with
> that. Yes, LaTeX is good for scientific papers. But that's not because
> looks don't matter. It's because of the beautiful look of mathematical
> formulae, the clear and automatic structure of your text, the
> cross-references, the automatic and consistent layout etc. Most of all
> it is because the defaults and many documentclasses are made for
> scientific papers. The author of TeX actually cares a lot about beauty.
>
> All that makes a LaTeX paper much more beautiful than let's say a word
> document. And you can actually influence the layout a lot (cf.
> KOMA-Script etc.).

You’re right, my wording was misleading. What I was trying to say is 
that a scientific article doesn’t need an individual, characteristic 
look. Of course I’m aware of the aspects of typographic aesthetics and 
that Knuth’s prime incentive for starting the whole thing was good (and 
thus beautiful) typesetting of formulae. But I hope you get my point 
here: with a poster, the visual style is at the core of every specific 
one you make, and there’s a far greater need for the _immediate_ 
feedback of a WYSIWYG environment.
And, Urs, I understand (and probably needn’t tell you) that this is not 
completely black-and-white: with templates and styles many WYSIWYG 
programs certainly allow to reuse an existing design for new contents, 
at least if you use them properly.

Best, Simon