Mostly I've been irritated by the E/R diagrams presented in the book, here's one example from page 114:
Get the idea? Now knowing the anomalies try to look at the next diagram:
Now that's eye-terrorism! Aaaah!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Ugly LaTeX
Sometimes books are written in LaTeX, and my, are they pretty(usually)! But sometimes the beauty of the typeset itself is overshadowed by the grimness of the package used for graphics or the lack of a graphical designer to fix the graphics! Our DBMS course material at DIKU is one such example(Introduction to Data Management Systems, ISBN: 9781847766120). Sure the description says "Custom publication for the course: Database og web programming", but that does not excuse the ugliness! It almost makes me unable to read through material due to the irritation to my eyes, but perhaps that's just me, anyways, here's a few examples.
Mostly I've been irritated by the E/R diagrams presented in the book, here's one example from page 114:
Seems alright at a quick glance, right? Wrong! Look here:
And here:
And here:
Mostly I've been irritated by the E/R diagrams presented in the book, here's one example from page 114:
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