On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:42:31 +0100 Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> On 2023-Jan-19, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:03:53 -0600 > > "Karl O. Pinc" <k...@karlpinc.com> wrote: > > > > > Attached are 2 patches, a regular and a delta from your v4 review: > > > > > > contrib_v5-delta.patch.txt > > > contrib_v5.patch.txt > > > > I left your appendix title unchanged: "Additional Supplied > > Extensions and Modules". > > > > I had put "Extensions" after > > "Modules", because, apparently, things that come last in the > > sentence are most remembered by the reader. My impression is that > > more people are looking for extensions than modules. > > Hmm, I didn't know that. I guess I can put it back. My own instinct > is to put the most important stuff first, not last, but if research > says to do otherwise, fine, let's do that. A quick google on the subject tells me that I can't figure out a good quick google. I believe it's from the book at bottom. Memorability goes "end", "beginning", "middle". IIRC. > I went over all the titles again. There were a couple of mistakes > and inconsistencies, which I've fixed to the best of my knowledge. > I'm happy with 0001 now and will push shortly unless there are > complaints. > > I'm still unsure of the [trusted]/[obsolete] marker, so I split that > out to commit 0002. I would like to see more support for that before > pushing that one. > > I also put the page-split bits to another page, because it seems a bit > too clumsy. All the above sounds good to me. > I hope somebody with more docbook-fu can comment: maybe > there's a way to fix it more generally somehow? What would the general solution be? There could be a forced page break at the beginning of _every_ sect1. For PDFs. That seems a bit much, but maybe not. The only other thing I can think of that's "general" would be to force a page break for sect1-s that are in an appendix. Is any of this wanted? (Or technically "better"?) Thanks for the help. ---- Writing for Readers By George R. Bramer, Dorothy Sedley ยท 1981 About this edition ISBN:9780675080453, 0675080452 Page count:532 Published:1981 Format:Hardcover Publisher:C.E. Merrill Publishing Company Original from:Pennsylvania State University Digitized:July 15, 2009 Language:English Author:George R. Bramer, Dorothy Sedley It's part of a wave of reaction against Strunk & White, where they started basing writing on research into reading. (If it's the right book.) Regards, Karl <k...@karlpinc.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein