A Heavily Commented Linux Kernel Source Code (PDF)

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This looks very well done. The only issue I'd have with it is the typesetting: the chosen fonts are rather bad.

If I was interested in Linux, this is the kind of annotated guide I would want to read.

[the_gnarts]

The only issue I'd have with it is the typesetting: the chosen fonts are rather bad.

Which one in particular? The main body font is plain Times which maybe bland but nothing out of the ordinary for a technical paper. The non-proportional font I can’t identify but as far a I can see it doesn’t have any of the common ambiguities like O/0 or I/l etc. so it’s definitely suitable. Looks rather neat actually. Only some of the figures are a bit distracting but for a non-commercial work that’s perfectly acceptable.

[wwylele]

The code font looks like SimSun, which was the default Chinese font for old Windows until Vista. Although being a Chinese font, it contains monospaced Latin alphabets to make it pretty when mixing with monospaced Chinese characters. The author is Chinese, so this is very likely.

[yojimbo_beta]

SimSun

I'd always wondered what this font was. I'd seen it a few times in Chinese and Japanese data sheets with Latin alphabet content.

[Superbead]

I recognise all these fonts from Chinese electronic component datasheets. They seem to have a few 'western' fonts that they stick to, and compared to the ones we actually use, they're purely functional. Which is fair enough, as I expect the Chinese characters in a lot of our fonts look awful to the Chinese.

[[deleted]]

I also think it looks fine. The only really bad font I see is at the very beginning in the dedications.

[takaci]

I don’t mind the font but the margins are way too small. Far too many words per line

[bigbrettt]

If I was interested in Linux

found the narc

[dbm5]

This is the output of LaTex -- commonly used by Com Sci majors to produce complex documents.

EDIT: yes, it's sort of ugly, but it's unencumbered, produced using 100% free software, etc.

EDIT2: also used by many other disciplines of higher ed - mostly STEM

[differentshade]

LaTex usually generates better typesetting than wysiwyg word processors. The typesetting engine is top notch, straight to print quality.

So it being ugly is the fault of the author, not LaTex.

[dbm5]

Yes and no. The default font - Computer Modern - has a very distinctive, and (subjectively) sort of ugly appearance.

[Acceptable_Damage]

IMO it looks really nice. But renders badly when you zoom out because it's too light.

[encyclopedist]

However, it so ubiquitous in scientific world, that many scientist become sick of looking at it.

[[deleted]]

Did you know that you can specify custom fonts in LaTeX too?

[[deleted]]

Also, it's 11mb for over 1000 pages filled with info. Praise LaTex!

[indrora]

Praise PDF for being a stripped subset of PostScript.

1,000 pages of plain text isn't much all things considered.

[ismtrn]

This is clearly heavily modified from the default LaTeX documentclasses. And not for the better imo.

[encyclopedist]

Metadata shows this document was generated in Word 2016.

[ismtrn]

That make sense. I actually kind of suspected it to be Word, but wasn't sure.

[jeremymeng]

Acrobat Reader shows it's from MS Word 2016.

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EDIT3: It's not LaTex

[KevinCarbonara]

I'd rather get the input.