Re: How do you set @Book { @Title{} } font size?

[Mark Summerfield]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:57:58 +1100
Jeff Kingston <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> > I think this ought to be more easily configurable though:-)
> 
> The trouble is, making everything more configurable is a task with
> no well-defined endpoint.  And after all you do have @OnTitlePage.

In this case I agree with you. (But in general I think you've leaned
toward to little configurability. I normally have to copy not just book
but bookf and dsf.)
  
> > However, it turned out that my @Book { @Title{} } wasn't actually being
> > used! I use @BeforeTitlePage, @OnTitlePage, and @AfterTitlePage, and
> > mixed up one of these with the @Title. (Maybe there should be a warning
> > if you use @Title and it won't produce any output because you've used
> > @OnTitlePage?)
> 
> Lout doesn't have an operator for printing a warning on stderr.  It
> would be possible to print a warning message in the actual document.
> But again, there are so many plausible cases for such warnings; where
> does it end?

Fair enough.

Any progress on np?

Personally, I'd be happy with a "lout 4" that:
- assumed utf-8-encoded Unicode text by default
- could write any Unicode character to PostScript (fonts permitting)
- could use true type and open type fonts out of the box as well as type1
- had a complete PDF backend (i.e., which could embed fonts on request
  and fully supported diagrams etc.)
- exposed far more options for configuration
- improved @Book to allow for more and more flexible forematter and
  endmatter

;-)

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