Re: [Bug-gnupress] Shorter To Do List

[Simon Law]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:09:35PM -0400, Lisa M. Opus Goldstein wrote:
> New cover design!  I woke up at 6:00 am today from a bad but true
> dream.  The book was about to go to the printers, when I realized that
> it didn't have a cover design!
> 
> In truth, Etienne Suvasa never created a design for GCC.  That is why
> the current manual "Using & Porting GCC" has the general gnu-head logo
> on it. [see http://www.gnu.org/doc/book5.html]
> 
> I could use the bull & egg one from the GCC web page, but I fear being
> flamed and complained about since it did not come form the official
> committee. [see http://gcc.gnu.org/]
> 
> The other option is the use the letters "GCC" made out of gnus being
> twisted into shapes, like the parentheses gnus created for Emacs Lisp.
> [see http://www.gnu.org/doc/book4.html] I already had a local artist
> create a Gnu in the shape of a "C" for the now-not-to-be-released C
> Programming Book.  (I was going for a take-off of the Kernigan and
> Ritchie cover.)  I can have the same artist do a "G" shape as well to
> spell out "GCC".
> 
> What do people think?

        I think that since the ECGS logo appears to be the GCC one, we
should ask if they'll give us permission to use it.  (Or rather, to use
a redrawn higher-quality version.)  I see no harm in asking them to make
a decision before we print the book.  I should hope that they will give
us permission, in the spirit of co-operation.

        As long as we are nice I don't think we'll see a problem.  We
should offer them the source for the image, too.

> Simon Law <address@hidden> wrote:
> >     Finally, there are some things I want to do; but are not
> > essential to get the book published.  Not on the critical path are:
> > 
> > i)   I want to use pdfTeX's features to make the typesetting look better.
> >      For reference, Google for "pseudo-hz" and "character protrusion".
> 
> How long would this take, if you did want to do it for the published
> version?

        A first-pass implementation of character protrusion is in
gnupress/texpress/palatino.tex, and you can see the results for yourself
if you use texi2pdf.  But I am not too happy with the results and the
PDF handling in Texinfo is absolutely retched.  I don't feel like
munging all the fonts by hand, so I'm probably going to revert the
change.

        However, if someone _else_ wants to do it by hand, they are
quite free to do so.

Simon