Andrew, I agree; and I find your words are so beautifully priceless;
this whole discussion reminds me of the news industry - the way
it was :-)
BTW - for you post-computer youngsters, I grew up in the news
industry; reading, writing, and yes having to wash my hands - even clothing
- from the newsprint ink ;-)
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Andrew Brager <apb3...@bak.rr.com> 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<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.
>
>
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