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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:24:24 -0500
From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Printed Materials
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jkominek@miranda.org wrote:
> 
> I'm the one responsible for what the dictionary looks like. I chose
> 8.5x11 because I figured most people would be printing it out at home,
> on their printers. (Or at work. ;)
> 
> I can produce it with whatever margins and dimensions you have a use
> for. Decide what you want (once), and let me know.

Actually, I tried to upload a generated PDF to CafePress, and it claimed
that the dimensions were not 8.5x11 but 8.26x8.26 (though I have known
them to screw up similar things).

Your bug or theirs?

Also: I think it would be excellent if somehow you could allow hyphenation
after a slash. The slash is used very commonly in "alternative" words in
definitions ("x1 is a foobar/thingy/whatsis/widget") and those things
sometimes get very long.

One problem this causes is text "running" into the next column (or the
margin). This can be seen on pages 24, 69, 72, 74, 87, 104, and 116.

Another lesser problem is that sometimes lines are unnecessarily "spread
out" when a long slashed expression is moved to the next line. Examples
are p. 8 binpre and p. 17 ckiku.


Cheers,
Hal