Lulu

[Paul O'Malley]

Matthew East wrote:

>Hi Paul,
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>No need to CC me, I read the list.
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>On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 23:03 +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:
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>>Matthew East wrote:
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>>>2. Size - Obviously, we need to decide which is the right size, and
>>>adjust the fonts in the documents accordingly.
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>>Its just a thought the size should be Crown Quarto
>>Reason, most other tech books around the same size
>>Perfect Bound
>>Again looks like the typical book.
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>Yes, I am always tempted by Perfect Bound. Re: size, I don't really have
>a view, let's see what everything thinks.
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>>>3. Cover art - we should probably approach the art team about cover art.
>>>Maybe they can help us out by 
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>>I have an idea for a basic cover design.
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>I'm afraid this is all much too complicated. We're going to be uploading
>all our guides, not just the desktop guide, and we'll need a really
>simple cover which we can easily use for all these. Here's this done
>well (although I'm not crazy about the colour ;D) -
>http://yovko.net/?p=744
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Maybe the ubuntu Desktop with white or off white text.

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>>>5. PDFs - some refining still needs to be done on the pdfs, like
>>>including subsection numbers and playing around a bit with the fonts.
>>>Any suggestions about formatting of the pdfs, please let me know.
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>>Could the automatic labelling that is used in some of the web site be 
>>used to create it?
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>Sorry, don't know what you mean. I was talking about improving the
>formatting of the PDF files, things like margins, headings, fonts, and
>so on.
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I am thinking specifically of heading generation, I will have to think 
more on the language I used here.
There must be a simple way to autogenerate an index from headings.

>Do you mean remove them from Lulu when the release is retired? This
>sounds relatively sensible. We'll probably be doing that with the
>documents on the website too.
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Yes.
Cheers
P.