Timothy Murphy wrote -- > I am just looking at a very well printed old book (Hardy & Wright, 1954), That would be the Monotype 5-line as used by CUP I think? This is what Knuth would have emulated had he been working 5000 miles further east. > For one thing, they do things which would be difficult (for me) in LaTeX, > eg Theorem 6: with a displayed formula on the same line. A known deficiency (but this is not the right list:-). I have a much more recent, but pre-computers, CUP-printed book that is an amazing example of very tight math typography despite a large amount of in-line math (which usually messes up any attempt at godd typography): totally, mind-blowingly different from what we are used to now! > It should be said that Hardy & Wright is an exception for its period. > Most of the research maths books of that vintage > were appallingly badly "printed" (usually typed). As early as that??: it is something I associate with the 60s: bring back the golf-ball! > TeX has been responsible for > an immense increase in the average printing quality of maths books. Absolutely. But it would be really serious fun (for everyone but sebastian:-) to try and emulate using TeX what CUP could do back then. chris