I don't doubt it or that it's extremely useful and mostly well-designed. I just wish its font rendering had a bit more meat on its bones.
I've never had to use it, so I don't know how it works at all (besides understanding that it's a marked-up file processing pipeline), so I'll ask: is there something deeply problematic with its font rendering tech that it has been like this for soooo long?
I mean, I can spot one of its PDFs from a mile away.
I don't know much about typesetting, but I always thought it was quite the opposite, Latex is a proper typesetting system for professional physical printing. It's actually almost everything else that looks "wrong" (besides things like InDesign).
I think it might also be because many things like browsers or MS Word have to use crude, fast algorithms for typesetting, but Latex uses complicated and slow, but much more accurate algorithms for that.
It's like if you compare a printed Word document vs. a printed Latex document it becomes very obvious. Latex looks like a newspaper or magazine, because that's just how printed text is actually supposed to look like.
I've never had to use it, so I don't know how it works at all (besides understanding that it's a marked-up file processing pipeline), so I'll ask: is there something deeply problematic with its font rendering tech that it has been like this for soooo long?
I mean, I can spot one of its PDFs from a mile away.