On 08/07/2012 06:10 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Words that are obscure within a particular technical language or very localised
geographical area do sometimes take a long time before they reach the lofty
academic's towers. Occasionally an academic or two might venture forth into
strange lands to see and report what is really going on. For example txting
had been in widespread usage and the main language for almost an entire
generation before some of the more obvious examples reached any type of
dictionary. People think language is static but if you travel across England
you find that every 20miles or so different words appear or vanish and usage
varies hugely. I live in almost a city but even 5miles outside in any
direction the locals are almost incomprehensible = it's still English, or at
least it's spoken in England.
Add different usages in nominally English speaking countries such as
bonnet or boot in UK vs US usage.
Regards from
Tom :)
I think the problem as I have been following the thread is the old
technical printing terminology has crept into LO but very few people are
aware of its technical meaning. The terminology is probably a very
accurate description of what is being done but to those of us who not
familiar with printing terminology it is borderline gibberish. The real
issue is how to handle the terminology, keep the accurate if obscure
terminology or replace it with a less precise but more generally
understood terminology.
--- On Tue, 7/8/12, TomW <tomw...@fairpoint.net> wrote:
From: TomW <tomw...@fairpoint.net>
Subject: Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting
(exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 7 August, 2012, 10:47
On 2012-08-07 01:03, Andrew Brager wrote:
On 8/6/2012 6:47 PM, Dan wrote:
Doug wrote:
On 08/06/2012 08:58 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
On 07/08/2012 at 02:40, Andrew Brager<apb3...@bak.rr.com> wrote:
Without meaning to fan the flames, can you provide another citation
outside of LO that supports the theory espoused?
That "register true" is for "adjust to baseline" or whatever?
Take any book about typography. I can cite at least three different book titles
from memory that will support it. But they are all in Polish, so I doubt they
will be much of use here.
ROTFL! --doug
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lswiki.nsf/dx/General_Glossary_ls301
I found this link. You will have to search down through this article. Lotus, I
believe is an IBM product as in Lotus Symphony. It has the same two paragraphs
that LO and AOO have.
--Dan
Again, without meaning to fan any flames or otherwise sound insulting, quite frankly in
my opinion the link is a weak one for various reasons, including lack of a verifiable
author with impressive sounding credentials. I was looking more for something along the
lines of a historical citation. Perhaps a book or article about the history of the
printing press, newspapers and/or typography. Towards that end I looked at various
sources for typography, none of them mention "register true" that I could find.
A google search on register true turns up only the LO help page.
It's just odd to me that something that is supposed to have been in use for many years isn't mentioned
anywhere authoritative (other than perhaps a few Polish books in Miroslaw's memory). Granted the term is
relatively obscure, but "parellelepiped" is in the dictionary and that arguably is even more
obscure. Other obscure words include "ninnyhammer" and "flibbertigibbet" which I've only
just learned.
Andrew:
Try googling for the following, starting on page 23.
Bookbinding and Its Auxiliary Branches: Punching, crimping, cycletting ...
By John J. Pleger
TomW
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