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Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List
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Simon Law |
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Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List |
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Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:26:59 -0500 |
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:55:53PM -0500, Lisa M. Opus Goldstein wrote:
> Simon Law <address@hidden> wrote:
> > OK. Here's my revised To Do List.
> >
> > 1) Figure out if spaces between list items is an issue. It looks great
> > to me right now, and I can't see how we can get any smaller without
> > ruining the aesthetics of the typesetting.
>
> If these can be made smaller than the current manual defaults, it can
> save *much* paper when printing. Another area much space is wasted is
> between different headings, sub-headings, sub-subheadings, etc.
>
> A second source of wasted space is the representation of C code. It is
> overly-wide between lines. They don't need as much space because
> everything is usually so indented, there is little time for the eye to
> become confused.
Funny you should mention this. I'm not quite sure how there is
this much wasted space. I'm looking at a copy of the GCC manual now and
it seems fine to me. Currently we have 394 physical pages.
Perhaps you could show me a sample: with before and after so
that I can compare. I get the feeling that we may not be communicating
properly (not on the same page, so to speak.)
> > send out camera-ready proofs with crop-marks and the like?
>
> Actually, now a days pre-press preperation is pretty simple. Just give
> the printer a PDF and a postscript version and they are perfectly
> content. They don't physically shoot film from hardcopy anymore.
No kidding? Do they do page alignment for you then? Or do you
supply a document with a Bounding Box?
As well, I seem to recall that books have signatures, and that
means we need target page counts. Do you know how many leafs are in a
signature?
Simon
- [Bug-gnupress] To Do List, Simon Law, 2003/04/01
- Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List, Joe Fineman, 2003/04/01
- Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List, Lisa M. Opus Goldstein, 2003/04/04
- Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List,
Simon Law <=
- Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List, Lisa M. Opus Goldstein, 2003/04/08
- Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List, Simon Law, 2003/04/08
- Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List, Lisa M. Opus Goldstein, 2003/04/08