Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List

[Simon Law]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:55:53PM -0500, Lisa M. Opus Goldstein wrote:
> Simon Law <address@hidden> wrote:
> > OK.  Here's my revised To Do List.
> > 
> > 1)  Figure out if spaces between list items is an issue.  It looks great
> >     to me right now, and I can't see how we can get any smaller without
> >     ruining the aesthetics of the typesetting.
> 
> If these can be made smaller than the current manual defaults, it can
> save *much* paper when printing. Another area much space is wasted is
> between different headings, sub-headings, sub-subheadings, etc. 
> 
> A second source of wasted space is the representation of C code. It is
> overly-wide between lines. They don't need as much space because
> everything is usually so indented, there is little time for the eye to
> become confused.

        Funny you should mention this.  I'm not quite sure how there is
this much wasted space.  I'm looking at a copy of the GCC manual now and
it seems fine to me.  Currently we have 394 physical pages.

        Perhaps you could show me a sample: with before and after so
that I can compare.  I get the feeling that we may not be communicating
properly (not on the same page, so to speak.)

> >     send out camera-ready proofs with crop-marks and the like?
> 
> Actually, now a days pre-press preperation is pretty simple. Just give
> the printer a PDF and a postscript version and they are perfectly
> content.  They don't physically shoot film from hardcopy anymore.

        No kidding?  Do they do page alignment for you then?  Or do you
supply a document with a Bounding Box?

        As well, I seem to recall that books have signatures, and that
means we need target page counts.  Do you know how many leafs are in a
signature?

Simon