alt Hacker NewsLaTeX also has some bizarre defaults like bitmap fonts in a tool designed to allow people to create high quality typeset documents.
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michal_h21 • last Tuesday at 3:31 PM
This was true maybe 20 years ago, before TeX engines that output directly to PDF were created. Today, the recommended engine is LuaLaTeX, and it defaults to OpenType fonts.
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which is ironic considering at one time the appeal of LaTeX was "sane defaults". Don't get me wrong. The default choices were really the best choice at some point in the past. They just no longer are.