---
title: "Typesetting the LaTeX way"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/typesetting-the-latex-way-vtqu96jfh
source_url: https://chriscummins.cc/2013/typesetting/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-03-31T20:56:28.433Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:06:08.895Z
tags: ["webdev", "css", "jquery"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Typesetting the LaTeX way

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The post discusses the author's love for typesetting and the use of LaTeX to achieve beautiful type appearance. It highlights the work of Christian Perfect on enabling Computer Modern fonts on the web and Bram Stein's implementation of the Knuth Plass algorithm for text justification. The post also mentions the use of Bram's hypher package for hyphenation in CSS justified text.

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daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://chriscummins.cc/2013/typesetting/>

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