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Well, I am open to all suggestions - and if the majority believes we don't need a newsletter, by all means, I am not trying to force it upon you |
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RSS provides only what... the last 10 threads?
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OK, attached you find a first demo of how the newsletter could look like. One is optimized for the Sony Reader, the other for the iRex iLiad. Bear in mind that I don't have an iLiad to try it out myself.
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This is your chance to influence how our future newsletter will look like So comments are greatly appreciately. Please separate your comments on the content and the layout. |
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From a quick flip through of the Iliad version...
* Paragraphing seems to have been lost on some stories * Why use ^^ to denote links...? Just link the entire headline (this is what it used for the toc, why change the metaphor)? * Some links are too wide for the page Looks cool and compact, though...! |
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Content: Cool! What exactly is included in the sample files? Only new threads of a week (including posts), or also updated threads that go back more than one week?
Layout: Looks fine on the Reader. Suggestion... how about inserting a page break after the end of each thread? This way every thread will start on top of a new page. |
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So no, it shouldn't be a lot of pain in your case (mostly because you're dealing with a single output, the newsletter will always look the same), and it is much more powerfull than htmldoc. |
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Now I am intrigued Hadrien, do you have some concrete hints how I should start with LaTeX->PDF? Like, what tools should I download, how should I start preparing the .tex file?
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Well, any LaTeX distribution should do the trick for you... You just need a bunch of basic packages and the pdflatex binary.
As for the beginning of your .tex file (Sony Reader here): \documentclass[english,oneside]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=black,bookmarks=true,boo kmarksnumbered=true,hypertexnames=false,plainpages =false,pdfpagelabels]{hyperref} \geometry{paperwidth=90mm,paperheight=120mm} \geometry{left=1mm, right=1mm, bottom=1mm, top=1mm} \begin{document} ... \end{document} |
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Thanks for the pointer, Hadrien. I read a LaTeX primer last night in bed, and I am impressed about the quality.
While I think I will continue reading about LaTeX, I am not so sure if it's my best choice for the newsletter. The information I pull from our databases has markup (bbcode); I would have to write a bcode->latex conversion script first in order to use LaTeX. Will see if it justifies the work, that is, if you guys don't like how the current newsletter looks like. |
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