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On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:21:16 +0200 |
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Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>: |
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> > I'm going to be with laptop stuck in the middle of wet, miserable, |
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> > rainy nowhere |
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> That sounds like Scotland. |
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Scotland has working interwebnets! I'm going to be in The North, which |
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is far worse. |
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> a) redefine \label, so it always displays its parameter in the margin. |
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> b) use a new \pmslabel and \pmsref command which will set a label and |
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> display it in the margin without touching the original \label command. |
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> \pmsref would then display something like "eapi2:phase:src_install on |
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> page 5". So using \ref will still return the section. |
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> Implementation differs only in detail, a) allows using the standard |
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> commands, b) needs the writer to think about what he does. I vote for |
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> b) as a) may break in funny environments as floats and friends (table, |
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> figure, minipage etc.). |
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b) is fine. If there's any chance a) will cause weird breakages, we |
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should probably avoid it for sanity's sake. |
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> Next thing. Putting those labels in the margin of the page makes it |
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> quite crowded. From a typographical point of view your page layout is |
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> just horrible. So I propose a redesign of the text and white space |
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> proportions, which will lead to larger margins all around (and pushing |
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> the PMS beyond 100 pages, according to my first test runs) |
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Mmm. The problem with pushing that too far is that you end up with two |
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paragraphs on a page... I'm already printing 2-up for when I want to |
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read PMS properly. Don't make me have to buy an ebook reader! |
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> Timeframe? You want EAPI 3 to go in before I do my stuff here: |
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> i) factor out pms.cls and comment the preamble a bit |
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> ii) cheat sheet with EAPI 3 |
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> iii) provide named \label and \ref commands |
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> iv) redesing page layout |
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Are you comfortable working off my eapi-3 branch that I rebase every |
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now and again? |
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Ciaran McCreesh |