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Re: reg day text lockup --- help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Mon Mar 7 20:20:48 2005
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:20:39 -0500 (EST)
From: tower@alum.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
To: gjordan@MIT.EDU, sasen@MIT.EDU, jtu@MIT.EDU
CC: apo-printshop-mtg@charon.LOCAL
In-reply-to: <42016911.9050008@mit.edu> (gjordan@MIT.EDU)
Reply-To: tower@alum.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:58:09 -0500
From: Grant Jordan <gjordan@MIT.EDU>
CC: sasen@mit.edu, jtu@mit.edu
The main problem was in the second ruled block (the open meeting project
info). The text just would not lock.
I've used this block a few times before, and I'm the one who rebuilt it
last semester with the nifty beveled rules at the top and the new rules
at the bottom... so I'm somewhat to blame here for making parts of it
tough to change. I think the problem was that the text that was changed
in the lower ruled block wasn't set to quite the right size for that
block (or wasn't set to proper even lengths).
We could have reset all the type in the lower block in probably an hour
or two, but we just didn't have the time as it was all coming down to
the last minute.
It might have gotten the block tighter, quicker, if you had put it
back into a composing stick, and worked with it there, instead of on
the stone.
Oh yeah, the other thing was Jentu noticed that the @ sign on the bottom
light (10pt cloister italic) was actually an 8pt block. I had forgotten
to note on the example card for that block that you (Len) and I had put
that 8pt piece there on purpose, since it looked better with the much
shorter than normal cloister italic. (I have since replaced the 8pt @
sign back in the block with spacers so it fits right).
-Grant
yiLFS -len
