Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Don't ask me why, but apparently these minimalistic differences are
pretty important in publishing.
You're joking, aren't you? Publishing as dictated by the dtp world is only concerned about a few things:
- everything should be on the grid (but manually tweak all exceptions, which are a lot)
- use a lot of colors (but don't worry about about a systematic approach)
- tell newbies not to use too many different fonts and sizes per page, but also
don't tell them that in practice you should use as many as possible without any
system in relative scaling
- scale each graphic differently
- tell tex users that their pdf file is wrong (probably a bitmap or so) because it's not made by their program
and most importantly:
- make a big fuzz about dimenions (like 8.45 point bodyfont sizes), claim to see the difference, but in practice consider adobe's bp to be the same as tex pt's
and, i must not forget,
- demands ragged right because it's impossible to do justification because if
qe or pm cannot do it, it cannot be done anyway
combined with:
- set all (hyphenation etc) penalties to 10000 because it's only this ancient tex that cannot come to a solution when all those demands are to be met at the same time
and, soon,
- let texies turn off hz, protruding, and whatever obscure things but demands the same tweaking that id has built in but is named differently and therefore better
and, yes, this one:
- give texies their specs in terms of 'use the values as set in the third menu
from the right, fifth entry, tenth button' and that will do it
so ... in the end ... don't worry to much about small differences, because in the end nobody will contradict the designer (it's about art anyway), the printer (it was really your file that made the colors come out differently, the pages slightly smaller, the built in fonts show up weird, and so on)
Hans
(while looking at 100 books that are a series and supposedly were made from the same specs but messed up in the dtp process and printing)
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