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
"Leslie" is also the registrant of z-m-l.com according to whois. :)
i'd love to see a .pdf representing your output from that...
That can be arranged: http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/files/14465-8.pdf Fairly straightforward. The commands: txt2html 14465-8.txt | html2ps -D > 14465-8.ps ps2pdf 14465-8.ps Some notes: * Inconsistent recognition of minor sections (i.e., sections within the intro). * Double dashes are not converted to em-dashes. * Images are, of course, not put in. This can be improved by using PG HTML, where applicable. * No TOC. This can be done by cutting the TOC from the original document and putting it in a link file for txt2html, then telling html2ps to convert links to page references. * No way that I see to handle footnotes automatically. Some custom CSS should handle it, if the docs don't lie. PS. The CSS: @html2ps { option { hyphenate: 1; number: 1; } } @page { size: 5.5in 8.5in; margin-top: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.5in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in; } p { text-indent: 1.5em; } Excerpts from Bowerbird's message of Mon Apr 26 15:55:40 -0500 2010:
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.
that's why i make many of the decisions according to a smart default.
I also conducted some more experiments with CSS stylesheets for on the html2ps side of things (using txt2html so that the chain looked like: txt2html -> html2ps -> ps file -> printer/screen).
i'd love to see a .pdf representing your output from that...
-bowerbird -- Michael McDermott www.mad-computer-scientist.com