CT Only: The Traveller Book Dust Jacket Replica is now live on Travellers' Aid Society!
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pesco
SOC-7
So, you asked for a post-mortem. It's a bit tricky since I'm not using any prefab macros, building things from scratch, and I do not yet have a full grasp of how troff's low-level plumbing for such things works.
There are "environments" for saving parameters like font, line length, etc. You can "divert" output to recall later and also measure its size, so I use that on the floating content. Then you set "traps" at the appropriate (vertical) positions that shrink the text area to flow stuff around and finally move into the empty space and place the diverted text.
Something isn't working the way I expect which causes the spacing around the heading to fail. No idea what's going on, yet. Anyway, once I figure it out, I can roll the technique into macros and future inserts should be easy.
There are "environments" for saving parameters like font, line length, etc. You can "divert" output to recall later and also measure its size, so I use that on the floating content. Then you set "traps" at the appropriate (vertical) positions that shrink the text area to flow stuff around and finally move into the empty space and place the diverted text.
Something isn't working the way I expect which causes the spacing around the heading to fail. No idea what's going on, yet. Anyway, once I figure it out, I can roll the technique into macros and future inserts should be easy.
kilemall
SOC-14 5K
The technology of print went through weird interim phases. One of those was the very early computer typesetters that would output the print on wax backed paper. That was then pasted down onto sheets, photo masters taken and printed that way.
No physical typesetting per se but the very infancy of computer based print output.
Not the sort of thing that was ready for desktop but right sized for small newspapers and publishing.
You may be fighting oddities from manual adjustments made against a long dead codebase. No telling what weirdness went into the original book production.
No physical typesetting per se but the very infancy of computer based print output.
Not the sort of thing that was ready for desktop but right sized for small newspapers and publishing.
You may be fighting oddities from manual adjustments made against a long dead codebase. No telling what weirdness went into the original book production.
