Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!arc!arc!steve From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: New format of CACM Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 16:00:36 GMT References: <1991May2.115138.1323@rti.rti.org> Sender: @advansoft.com Distribution: usa Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: duncan@rti.rti.org's message of 2 May 1991 11:51:38 GMT In article <1991May2.115138.1323@rti.rti.org> duncan@rti.rti.org (Stephen Duncan) writes: What do you folks think of the new format of CACM? I don't think it is appropriate for a professional journal. I find the fonts used for the table of contents and article sections difficult to scan. The page used to start articles look more like something in an ad, and thus skippable, rather than something to read. I fully agree. The heavy san-serif type over a dark background that starts each article not only looks just like an ad, it is ugly and hard to read. The table of contents is a disaster. The last issue had *entire articles* in what looked like san-serif boldface! Anybody from CACM out there listening? CACM used to be my standard good example of an attractive, easy-to-read technical publication; I always found the typography clear and unobtrusive, unlike that in some other publications in our field. Now it's my standard example of the other sort. Somebody should take their desktop-publishing toys away until they figure out how to use them. Steve Duncan duncan@rti.rti.org Thanks for starting this thread, Steve; it needed to be said. -- \ --Steve Savitzky-- \ ADVANsoft Research Corp \ REAL hackers use an AXE! \ \ steve@advansoft.COM \ 4301 Great America Pkwy \ #include \ \ arc!steve@apple.COM \ Santa Clara, CA 95954 \ 408-727-3357 \ \__ steve@arc.UUCP _________________________________________________________