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Skillmon replying to निरंजन

Yes, we rabbits are really good at trickery! (we learned from tortoises)

निरंजन replying to AnonymousRabbit

Oh! Smart :D

AnonymousRabbit replying to निरंजन

taking a look at the sources: white coloured text below the pixel font.

samcarter replying to Skillmon

In mac preview, it looks nice.

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

What are you using now?

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

:P

Skillmon

@samcarter You might have another look, I changed some glyphs a bit, to get a crudely similar metric to the normal text and used a small hack to make the text searchable and copyable (I previously tried to get that via `accsupp` but that wasn't working out too well -- or rather it didn't work for my viewer)

samcarter replying to Skillmon

Blaming the viewer always works :P

Skillmon

Also: Let's call it "font" instead of font :) Afterall every glyph is a `\pxpic`.

Skillmon replying to CarLaTeX

I keep to my words from the documentation (though on a different matter):  
> blame the viewers.

Skillmon replying to samcarter

well, it's Acrobat. Of course it's not pretty.

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Oh! I can confirm with acrobat on macos - not pretty!

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

Acrobat on Windows

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

which pdf viewer do you use? I didn't see these vertical white lines with mac preview.

samcarter replying to Skillmon

This makes a huge difference :)

CarLaTeX replying to AnonymousRabbit

I am both nearsighted and farsighted and I don't understand if it's my eyes or the font made like that

CarLaTeX

![blob](/image?hash=0f0cc5c4fbd04545534cf5e03bd88941e89e7dca81289ec627926b2be4cb6197)

Skillmon replying to samcarter

interestingly, I find that the headings do stick out because of their different greyness in particular. Nevertheless I increased the font size by another step to make the pixel effect more noticeable (so now we're at `\huge` for sections, which is, well, already quite huge)

AnonymousRabbit replying to samcarter

Covers my findings pretty much. The font size was already increased once, but another step might be a good idea.

samcarter replying to AnonymousRabbit

I just tested with the pdf. It is probably a matter of taste, but personally I would increase the font size a bit:
  
- with the pixels, the font looks gray and does not stand out very much compared to the surrounding text (pot/kettle: I also have a package with gray headings and I should change that, but it is so pretty if all the package docs follow a colour gradient -- until one runs out of distinguishable colours...)

- when opening at 100%, the pixels are not immediately noticeable. A bit bigger might allow more users to enjoy this Easter egg.

AnonymousRabbit replying to CarLaTeX

you could try, I heard the changes are already in the repository and you could clone it and run `l3build doc` on it, to check how it's looking in your PDF viewer.

samcarter replying to Skillmon

looks very pixelated, you should install the `cm-super` package -- oh wait :P

CarLaTeX replying to Skillmon

Stylish but maybe difficult to read?

Skillmon

300% zoom on the same headings:  
![foo.png](/image?hash=78d0f0ace80bc1d09e67ec18935487734f86db00d2106e2b9d848eb0c8f423ad)

Skillmon

I restyled the headings of the `pxpic` documentation a bit. Opinions?  
![foo.png](/image?hash=3eaa991f63943e7a7be51891786d8e543402425d64053d0e7e9f379fa82c3590)

samcarter

:D

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

No sleep on holiday, you have time to do it at home :D

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

... sleeping is over-rated :D

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

No problem, they watch the competitions during the day and the Superbowl at night

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Wow --  they need to multitask! Going to the Olympics and watching owls :)

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

My American friends (in Milan for the Olimpic Games) searched a bar with a TV where you can watch the American channels just to watch it tonight :D

samcarter

Let's have a superb owl party!
  
![document-1.png](/image?hash=3df6f149a2592b3fc340ca95db897daaef27826c0c45456b75628957b45c52f9)

samcarter

Yeah, it is texlive prestest season! The best season of the year!   
  
All around the world, people are celebrating this special event with big parties:
  
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Desfile_Portela_2014_(906185).jpg)

samcarter replying to Skillmon

Depending on which region they come from, the snow must be quite a shock - I bet they drive brilliantly in the heat of summer :P

Skillmon replying to samcarter

here the buses did no longer arrive, so my children spent the occasional day at home. But there wasn't that much snow (at most \qty{1}{corgi} at any given time, I'd say). But the bus company hired a bunch of Spanish guys for drivers... (nothing against Spanish folks, but driving on snow doesn't seem to be their forte)

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

pssht, don't spoil the secrets!

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

I always suspected that you were a bot (just with a waaaaaaaaaaay better training in programming)!

samcarter replying to Skillmon

I also prefer en dashes, the article was  interesting nevertheless :)

samcarter replying to Skillmon

Congratulations to the new tires!  
  
Last week, we had about \qty{1.5}{corgis} of snow, that was a bit much -  the whole region went mad. Schools were closed for 3 days, we were told to stay in home office for two days...

Skillmon replying to samcarter

I'm an en-dash guy (as evidenced by ↑that↑ comment)

Skillmon replying to samcarter

I like snow, actually. I much enjoy it most of the time (except yesterday evening, when my aged all-wheather-tyres finally gave up on me and I had to walk the last kilometre home after work -- car got fitted new tyres today)

samcarter

for all fans of the em dash: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/658-the-em-dash/

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

<3

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

Of course!

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Have fun!   
  
I hope the Professor van Duck gets to go with you on the sightseeing tour!

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

No problem to me, I'm retired now :D And some American friends come to visit me on this occasion, I'll do the tourist guide for a couple of days, when they won't go to see the competitions :D

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

I'll keep fingers crossed that it won't get too bad for you and goes back to normal soon!

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

Indeed! There is little snow even in the mountains and 90% of Milanese people look at the Olimpic Games as a nuisance (school closed, street closed, more traffic, overtourism...)

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Sounds like the perfect location for a big winter sport event  :P

CarLaTeX

When I was a child, it used to snow heavily two or three times a year, now nothing