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Re: [lojban] CLLv1.1: I need a LaTeXer.



On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:25:41PM -0701, .alyn.post. wrote:
> 
> There are two problems in the index that likely aren't typesetting
> problems.  Looking at page 710:
> 
>  * the entry for zernerkla has an error message in it.
>  * the entry for zetro has some LaTeX markup that managed to get
> 	 rendered as text instead.  I suspect that problem is in your
> 	 xslt, if that is what you used to generate this document.

OK.

> Are the list of examples supposed to have names, or is it that
> they are numbers only?  It probably deserves to be 2-column or
> some other compressed format rather than the way it currently
> renders.

I was thinking of tossing it out entirely, actually; I don't find it
an interesting addition given the thoroughness of the index.

> Are you needing help both on things like that as well as tweaking
> spacing, tables, &c?  Just the former?

All of it.  Anything that has to do with how the XML gets turned
into a PDF, really, which is all about LaTeX; about generating the
right LaTeX from the XML and tweaking the LaTeX with extra .sty
files or whatever.

> In this process, do you even have the ability to fix problems like
> the bottom of page 513 and the top of page 517; where manual page
> breaks and table formatting will likely need to be added to handle
> particular special cases of how the text winds up on the page?
> (And which will of course change as larger scope adjustments are
> made.)

I want it to be awesome.  I want to be proud to publish it.  So: all
of the above.  I'm perfectly happy to have tags in the XML that are
only used by the LaTeX/PDF if necessary/helpful (and vice versa for
the HTML, although CSS makes that largely unnecessary).

I know where all the hooks are; I can make the LaTeX look like
pretty much anything you want.  What I don't know is what the LaTeX
should look like to get particular visual results.

-Robin

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