From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Sep 24 22:30:50 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EJP6A-0002Ay-Dk for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:30:50 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.44] helo=ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EJP64-0002Ak-A2 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:30:50 -0700 Received: from hypermetrics.com (cpe-66-68-164-156.austin.res.rr.com [66.68.164.156]) by ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j8P5UfB2008282 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:30:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <43363601.6080504@hypermetrics.com> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:30:41 -0500 From: Hal Fulton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Printed Materials References: <200509241039.17208.scottr@synthiotics.com> <200509242043.49513.scottr@synthiotics.com> <43362046.4030807@hypermetrics.com> <200509242132.04844.scottr@synthiotics.com> <43363068.604@hypermetrics.com> <20050925052605.GZ29546@miranda.org> In-Reply-To: <20050925052605.GZ29546@miranda.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2318 X-Approved-By: hal9000@hypermetrics.com 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: hal9000@hypermetrics.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners jkominek@miranda.org wrote: > 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? > If that is the case, I have misunderstood the situation. Hal