Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI cheat sheet (for review)

[Christian Faulhammer]

Hi,

Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>:

> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:21:16 +0200
> Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
> > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>:
> > > I'm going to be with laptop stuck in the middle of wet, miserable,
> > > rainy nowhere
> >
> >  That sounds like Scotland.
>
> Scotland has working interwebnets! I'm going to be in The North, which
> is far worse.

 What the hell is north of Scotland in the UK?  Don't tell me you are
going abroad.

> >  Next thing.  Putting those labels in the margin of the page makes
> > it quite crowded.  From a typographical point of view your page
> > layout is just horrible.  So I propose a redesign of the text and
> > white space proportions, which will lead to larger margins all
> > around (and pushing the PMS beyond 100 pages, according to my first
> > test runs)
>
> Mmm. The problem with pushing that too far is that you end up with two
> paragraphs on a page... I'm already printing 2-up for when I want to
> read PMS properly. Don't make me have to buy an ebook reader!

 I will run some tests what looks best, and will present sample pages
here...

> >  Timeframe?  You want EAPI 3 to go in before I do my stuff here:
> >
> > i) factor out pms.cls and comment the preamble a bit
> > ii) cheat sheet with EAPI 3
> > iii) provide named \label and \ref commands
> > iv) redesing page layout
>
> Are you comfortable working off my eapi-3 branch that I rebase every
> now and again?

 Not really, as I have some more pressing tasks on my agenda I am fine
with postponing above tasks after the EAPI 3 merge.

V-Li

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