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Subject:RE: RE: Interviewing "under the hood"? From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:55:29 -0400
Sean,
I don't do any of the things you suggest. The only places I make any manual adjustments are in marketing collateral, where appearance counts for a great deal, and then only after all content edits are complete. Mostly I design layouts that simply don't require that kind of twiddling.
My grumble is that the software should do all this automatically from the _same_ markup tag, without requiring and manual overrides.
Dick
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
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