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Re: [Bug-gnupress] Shorter To Do List
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Simon Law |
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Re: [Bug-gnupress] Shorter To Do List |
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Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:01:01 -0400 |
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:09:35PM -0400, Lisa M. Opus Goldstein wrote:
> New cover design! I woke up at 6:00 am today from a bad but true
> dream. The book was about to go to the printers, when I realized that
> it didn't have a cover design!
>
> In truth, Etienne Suvasa never created a design for GCC. That is why
> the current manual "Using & Porting GCC" has the general gnu-head logo
> on it. [see http://www.gnu.org/doc/book5.html]
>
> I could use the bull & egg one from the GCC web page, but I fear being
> flamed and complained about since it did not come form the official
> committee. [see http://gcc.gnu.org/]
>
> The other option is the use the letters "GCC" made out of gnus being
> twisted into shapes, like the parentheses gnus created for Emacs Lisp.
> [see http://www.gnu.org/doc/book4.html] I already had a local artist
> create a Gnu in the shape of a "C" for the now-not-to-be-released C
> Programming Book. (I was going for a take-off of the Kernigan and
> Ritchie cover.) I can have the same artist do a "G" shape as well to
> spell out "GCC".
>
> What do people think?
I think that since the ECGS logo appears to be the GCC one, we
should ask if they'll give us permission to use it. (Or rather, to use
a redrawn higher-quality version.) I see no harm in asking them to make
a decision before we print the book. I should hope that they will give
us permission, in the spirit of co-operation.
As long as we are nice I don't think we'll see a problem. We
should offer them the source for the image, too.
> Simon Law <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Finally, there are some things I want to do; but are not
> > essential to get the book published. Not on the critical path are:
> >
> > i) I want to use pdfTeX's features to make the typesetting look better.
> > For reference, Google for "pseudo-hz" and "character protrusion".
>
> How long would this take, if you did want to do it for the published
> version?
A first-pass implementation of character protrusion is in
gnupress/texpress/palatino.tex, and you can see the results for yourself
if you use texi2pdf. But I am not too happy with the results and the
PDF handling in Texinfo is absolutely retched. I don't feel like
munging all the fonts by hand, so I'm probably going to revert the
change.
However, if someone _else_ wants to do it by hand, they are
quite free to do so.
Simon