From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Sep 24 22:26:11 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EJP1e-000253-QT for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:26:10 -0700 Received: from miranda.org ([65.124.18.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EJP1a-00024v-Pi for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:26:10 -0700 Received: (qmail 17705 invoked by uid 534); 24 Sep 2005 23:26:05 -0600 From: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:26:05 -0600 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Printed Materials Message-ID: <20050925052605.GZ29546@miranda.org> References: <200509241039.17208.scottr@synthiotics.com> <200509242043.49513.scottr@synthiotics.com> <43362046.4030807@hypermetrics.com> <200509242132.04844.scottr@synthiotics.com> <43363068.604@hypermetrics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43363068.604@hypermetrics.com> Accept-Language: jbo, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2316 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 12:06:48AM -0500, Hal Fulton wrote: > As for the PDF size, IMO it's not worth Jay changing it yet. Maybe > I could make a PDF writer someday, based on data extracted from > jbovlaste. I'm a Ruby expert, and learning Austin Ziegler's > PDF::Writer is on my to-do list. Why do you think it would be productive to replace a working process, with one that will require you to duplicate a lot of perfectly good code, and write your own type setting engine? -- Jay Kominek