Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
here's that alice pdf i mentioned on friday. it's at:
http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/alice01/alice01/alice01.pdf
I'm glad you posted yours so people can compare. This is what we get out of TEI without hand-tweaking anything: http://pgtei.pglaf.org/marcello/0.4/examples/alice/11-pdf.pdf I especially want to draw people's attention to following problems in bb's pdf: (in parens the pages where the problem can best be observed) line justification bb's pdf isn't justified at all. It is simply lines broken using character count. That will do for fixed fonts but never for proportional ones. hyphenation long words need to be hyphenated to make interword spacing more even. em-dashes should use typografic dashes instead of -- unprintable margins many laser printers will not print to the very edge of the page, thus bb's lines will be cut off. incompatible page blackness (16-17, 22-23, 26-27) left and right-hand pages have different amounts of leading. This looks ugly. footnotes should (as the name implies) show at the foot of the same page, not in the appendix picture size (39, 40) pictures should float to the next page if not enough room is left onthis page, not be resized to poststamp size missing pictures (23) all pictures should make it into the pdf table of contents should have page numbers -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org