RE: RE: Interviewing "under the hood"?

[Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

But, then, your content is updated, your text moves,
what was on one page now spans two or is on a new page
facing a difference page  . . . and you have to undo
or redo your customizations either to fix the ensuing
ugliness or to apply new balance schemes . . .. 

Does creating overrides to feather pages improve
readability? Does it help convey information? And,
then you go and deliver HTML to someone whose 19-in.
monitor is running 1600x1200 ppi desktop size and
someone else who is running 640x480 and the layout
precision escapes notice . . ..

You could, of course, create paragraph styles called,
Override2pt, Override4pt, Override6pt, etc., each of
which is designed to be blank and, like a precision
washer, add a specific gap wherever installed.

Cheers,

Sean


--- Dick Margulis  <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> wrote:
> 
> <grumble>
> Gene raises an interesting issue. Back when page
> make-up was a manual process (whether we are talking
> about foundry type, hot metal, or RC paper), we had
> the equivalent of style definitions, and we had
> rules for making up pages. The first rule was that
> facing pages had to have the same depth (except for
> first and last pages, of course, which had their own
> rules).
> 
> In facing pages that contained things like breaks,
> subheads, numbered or bulleted lists, tables,
> figures, etc., the person making up the page
> adjusted the various spaces, in a proportional and
> subtle way, to make the depth. So the verso page,
> with two number 1 subheads might have a few points
> more lead above each of those subheads than the
> recto page, which had three number 1 subheads, for
> example. Or the extra space was thrown in above the
> table on one page.

<snip>
 
> This did not require a special definition for a new
> style every time you wanted a slight spacing

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