mike said:
Leslie,
leslie is my girlfriend, not me. sometimes she checks her e-mail when i'm away from the machine, so when i come back i end up sending a message from her account. oh, but you probably got her name from the "author" box of the .pdf, now that i think about it. that was filled in by the text-editor i used... if you check out the later .pdfs, you should find that that metadata is supplied correctly by my authoring-tool. (unless i forgot to specify it.)
The leading is perfect.
oops... i took it up considerably in the newer version i just posted... it has 10.5-point type, with 12-point leading; and still runs 400 pages. and bigger leading means fewer lines per page, and thus more pages. which might or might not be a big deal to you. all of these variables make it complicated to know how to create a .pdf for somebody else. which is why a cyberlibrary needs to put .pdf/hard-copy output creation ability into the hands of its end-users, so they can _customize_ it fully...
if I had an ebook reader I probably would not be bothering with any of this.
I also conducted some more experiments with CSS stylesheets for on the html2ps side of things (using txt2html so that the chain looked
that's why i make many of the decisions according to a smart default. like:
txt2html -> html2ps -> ps file -> printer/screen).
i'd love to see a .pdf representing your output from that... -bowerbird