we seem to have lost the mad scientist. mike mcd, are you still out there? if so, i have some questions for you... here's another take on "gods and fighting men":
this .pdf just has the first page of each chapter, but it came outta my program, not a text-editor. as we can see, the p.g. linebreaks make this text practically unusable, so we'll have to do a rewrap, especially if you want to have the text _justfied_... (if not, i can just rearrange the unwieldy lines and leave the vast majority of p.g. linebreaks in place.) going on, is this text-size (10-point) good for you? (again, print out some pages so you know for sure.) how about the leading? it's 15-point leading, so that's generous for 10-point type, and you might feel it's _too_ big, but i thought i'd show it to you. on pages 12 and 101, you'll see _blue_ headers... those are lines that needed to be _shrunk_ a bit, so they would not spill over into the margin area. on page 12 it's 15.5-point instead of 16-point, and on page 101 it's 13-point instead of 14-point. (and that latter one still intrudes on the margins.) the program attempts to "copy-fit" all the headers to the same size, but i'm experimenting here with allowing slight variations in size on freakish lines. (rather than letting the freaks dictate that the other header-lines be smaller to accommodate the freaks.) so the question is, are these small variations bad? noticeable? too much so? do they bother you much? -bowerbird