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Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Post by throwayguestman »

graycat wrote: post #164
adtac wrote: post #143

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>Knuth did proudly use TeX to print dinner menu That's hilarious. Any sources on that? That man is incredible.

I was typing quickly from memory. With The TeXBook , on page 411 he has a concert program; on page 248 he has a genealogy chart; on page 247 he has some nicely formatted stock tables; on pages 233, 236-7 he has some recipe stuff from Julia Child. So, instead of a menu, I found a concert program and some recipes. Maybe there is a menu in there someplace. He also has an addressed envelope where he used his Metafont in…

>little boxes of geometric gibberish used as identifiers

in which context?

Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Post by kzrdude »

nextos wrote: post #59
opieters wrote: post #33

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I think this need not be the case. When creating this, I wanted it to look good and the way I wanted it. Not make it scream "LaTeX". For a CV, Computer Modern might be more apt since there's also more text on it. But again, why make it scream LaTeX if one can do it more subtle and make it more personal at the same time? Do note that I have a LaTeX PDF style CV as well, but it's not linked in the article (nor availabl…

Exactly. Good TeX should simply yield to good typography. Nice ligations, etc. I dont like Computer Modern too much. I am very fond of Gentium [1]. For math, I love Euler [2], which is used in Concrete Mathematics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentium [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler

Doesn't Euler look a tad cartoony to you? I guess that goes away when you are used to it.

Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Post by fhars »

preek wrote: post #155
janci wrote: post #153

What an horrific idea to make an accidental horizontal swipe on a mobile device make the page jump to the top!

Horizontal swiping on my iPhone does what it's usually doing.

For me it even jumped to the top if I was not extremely careful and conscious when scrolling vertically, never even made it to the end of the description of the front side before giving up in desperation.

Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Post by fhars »

robinhoodexe wrote: post #7
TwoBit wrote: post #4

Serious question: Is LaTeX used outside academia these days?

Check out http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40720/latex-in-indust... . I like the one about the Deutsche Bahn (german railway company) using TeX to typeset the time tables on the train stations.

But is it still true?

The downloadable files containing several time tables say:

    Creator:        Adobe InDesign CS6 (Windows)
    Producer:       Acrobat Distiller 10.1.16 (Windows)
While the ones with just a single one say:

    Creator:        Hafas Print Bahnhofstafeln 4.6.5
    Producer:       PDFlib 9.0.5 (Win32)

Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Post by yorwba »

mrkgnao wrote: post #147
wtbob wrote: post #117

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FWIW, my $BOSS-2 had a PhD, loved LaTeX and even set one of our lower-level guys on writing all our company-internal docs in LaTeX. It actually worked out pretty well. I imagine that an obviously-LaTeX resume (look for the ligatures, the correct spacing between sentences vice after periods, the clean, consistent grey across the page, the bold, clean margins) would play especially well with him. As you might guess fro…

> vice after periods Is vice Latin? It reminds me of pace (because of the "shape" of the word, haha), but I guess it means something akin to except ?

I found a definition that fits https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vice#Derived_terms_2

So apparently what was meant is

correct spacing between sentences instead of after periods

Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Post by 50CNT »

usaphp wrote: post #30

Has anyone ever used QR codes on the business cards or store doors? It seems like a waste of space, you need to have a special app on your phone to read it. I think most people don't use that.

Not on business cards & store doors, but WeChat Pay and Alipay both use QR codes for payment, so anywhere between 1-5 times a day. The washing machines downstairs too.

Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Post by sokoloff »

throwayguestman wrote: post #171
graycat wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was typing quickly from memory. With The TeXBook , on page 411 he has a concert program; on page 248 he has a genealogy chart; on page 247 he has some nicely formatted stock tables; on pages 233, 236-7 he has some recipe stuff from Julia Child. So, instead of a menu, I found a concert program and some recipes. Maybe there is a menu in there someplace. He also has an addressed envelope where he used his Metafont in…

>little boxes of geometric gibberish used as identifiers in which context?

I struggled to understand that as well. Couldn't tell if it was about USPS barcodes (1) or QR codes (or other 2D barcodes) or something else?

[1] - https://www.neodynamic.com/Products/Help/BarcodeCF2.0/barcod...

Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Post by Normal_gaussian »

chrisseaton wrote: post #82
aseipp wrote: post #79

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I believe he means when he responded "Yes" to the final question (as in "Yes, I have the PDF file for the business card"), he was lying and had nothing. So he quickly searched SO and found what he needed. Sometimes, that's just what Stack Overflow is there for: a quickly accessible CYA!

That's a bit dramatic to call a lie!

It was a lie though, the fact you can then go on to do something such that the other party is never aware of the lie does not stop it from being a lie.

Most interactions are full of such lies, particularly between people with very different skill sets. Lies are social lubricants, and often have very little drama associated with them.

We do however have an interesting social stigma associated with the term "lie", much like "manipulate".

Re: Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

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Post by kaeluka »

nextos wrote: post #59
opieters wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this need not be the case. When creating this, I wanted it to look good and the way I wanted it. Not make it scream "LaTeX". For a CV, Computer Modern might be more apt since there's also more text on it. But again, why make it scream LaTeX if one can do it more subtle and make it more personal at the same time? Do note that I have a LaTeX PDF style CV as well, but it's not linked in the article (nor availabl…

Exactly. Good TeX should simply yield to good typography. Nice ligations, etc. I dont like Computer Modern too much. I am very fond of Gentium [1]. For math, I love Euler [2], which is used in Concrete Mathematics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentium [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler

I like Gentium. Thanks for the tip!

> Good TeX should simply yield to good typography.

Making it look like tech can make it appear like you're one of the in-crowd. Although I personally try to avoid exactly that, I can see it being an advantage in -- for example -- CVs. Fwiw, my CV is also done in LaTex. I hope it doesn't show too much: http://stbr.me/cv

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