Re: Typesetting (back on track, calling the mad scientist)
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
Leslie,
mike mcd, are you still out there?
Yup--everyone else seemed to be having too much fun with the iPad, though :)
here's another take on "gods and fighting men":
I took a look at this and at the take5 version. Either would be quite sufficient for my needs, though, aesthetically, I like the take5 version better.
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.
The leading is perfect.
so the question is, are these small variations bad? noticeable? too much so? do they bother you much?
Don't bother me--though, admittedly, 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 like: txt2html -> html2ps -> ps file -> printer/screen). -Michael Excerpts from Bowerbird's message of Thu Apr 22 17:06:58 -0500 2010:
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 -- Michael McDermott www.mad-computer-scientist.com
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