There's a certain kind of computer science paper from the 90s, very frequently encountered if you're familiar with the research. The typesetting is incredibly ugly, and they're all ugly in the same characteristic way. See for example [1] (just the first one I found, some are quite a bit worse). I want to know the story behind this.
In the case of my example, note that when you load this paper in a browser, the tab will say "main.dvi". So I'm guessing the paper was typeset in LaTeX, published as DVI, and when PDF came along they converted it, but the DVI -> PDF conversion algorithm was really bad.
In the case of my example, note that when you load this paper in a browser, the tab will say "main.dvi". So I'm guessing the paper was typeset in LaTeX, published as DVI, and when PDF came along they converted it, but the DVI -> PDF conversion algorithm was really bad.
[1] https://courses.cs.duke.edu/spring02/cps296.1/papers/H-SIGMO...