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. > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted