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In case someone is wondering, here’s a table from the doc book example: [0]

FWIW, in FF, Win the PDF fonts have aliasing issues when not zoomed in, Sumatra PDF looks much better.

I think the font choice is a lot of it, at least. Sile may be a great typesetting system technically, but the examples kind of look, well, like they were put together by someone who maybe doesn't know much about good layout and typography.

Yes, the typeface is horrible, no question about it, but the other issues mentioned are definitely also there.

You’re not wrong. They look absolutely terrible, and frankly, much worse than just using Word or Pages.

A big reason why people love TeX is the quality of the output.