Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
but nonetheless, as the saying (which is in alice) goes, "no accounting for tastes!"
That's what people with bad tastes always say.
as a quick example, i'll often copy text out of a web-page to read it in a wordprocessor, where i can format it at will.
... wouldn't it be easier to drop a stylesheet into your browser?
i explained exactly why i did this -- to illustrate the problem. one of the next examples of this .pdf will have justified text. ultimately, whether lines are justified should be a user option.
Now I see the pattern. Every bug is an "illustration of the problem" and every design flaw is "an option which I will later give to the user".
but i'm glad you mentioned pagesize, since i thought that your selection of pagesize in your .pdf was a bit strange...
Its not the size that matters much, because every pdf viewer supports scaling to fit the paper size. Its the aspect ratio of the page that matters. My choice of an aspect ratio of 1:1.4142 is conforming to international standard ISO 216 and guarantees that 1-up, 2-up, 4-up, 2^n-up, will always fit the appropriate paper size. My default paper size is A5, which is the ISO-216 size nearest to what size we expect a book to be. It will print nicely 2-up on A4, and using psnup it will fold into a book. It will even fit on US legal paper (wasting a bit) and also on US letter paper losing some of the margins. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org