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  2. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    Centered text is considered less readable for a body of text made up of multiple lines because the ragged starting edges make it difficult for the reader to track from one line to the next. Centered text can also be commonly found on signs, flyers, and similar documents where grabbing the attention of the reader is the main focus, or visual ...

  3. Monospaced font - Wikipedia

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    The failure of a proportional font to reproduce the desired boxes above motivates monospaced fonts' use in the creation and viewing of ASCII and ANSI art. Some poetry composed monospaced on typewriters or computers also depends on the vertical alignment of character columns. E. E. Cummings' poetry is often set in monospaced type for this reason.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics/sandbox - Wikipedia

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    Misalignment can result. For example, instead of e x, with "e" at the same level as the surrounding text and the x in superscript, one may see the e lowered to put the vertical center of the whole "e x" at the same level as the center of the surrounding text. The download speed of a page is negatively affected if it contains many formulae.

  5. TeXworks - Wikipedia

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    It is a Qt-based graphical user interface to the TeX typesetting system and its LaTeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX extensions. TeXworks is targeted at direct generation of PDF output. It has a built-in PDF viewer using the poppler library; the viewer has auto-refresh capability, and also features SyncTeX support (which allows the user to synchronize the ...

  6. TeX - Wikipedia

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    Despite his desire to keep the program stable, Knuth realized that 128 different characters for the text input were not enough to accommodate foreign languages; the main change in version 3.0 of TeX is thus the ability to work with 8-bit inputs, allowing 256 different characters in the text input. TeX3.0 was released on March 15, 1990.

  7. Help:Displaying a formula - Wikipedia

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    The normal way of entering quotation marks in text mode (two back ticks for the left and two apostrophes for the right), such as \text {a ``quoted'' word} will not work correctly. As a workaround, you can use the Unicode left and right quotation mark characters, which are available from the "Symbols" dropdown panel beneath the editor: \text { a ...

  8. TeX font metric - Wikipedia

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    It also contains the font's design size; all following fix_word values are interpreted as multiplication factors for this. File structure of a TFM file. The next table, char_info, consists of one word per character, and contains indexes into the width, height, depth and italic correction tables. This is a device to save space, because width ...

  9. Help:Wikitext - Wikipedia

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    Better not use < big > big text </ big >, unless < small > it's < big > within </ big > small </ small > text. Better not use big text , unless it's within small text. To prevent two words from becoming separated by a linewrap (e.g. Mr. Smith or 400 km/h ) a non-breaking space , sometimes also called a "non-printing character", may be used ...