Re: TECH: more help?

From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <conlang@...>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:52 AM

> If you can afford it, DANTE  (the German-speaking TeX
> Users Group,
> <http://www.dante.de>) and TUG (US;
> <http://www.tug.org/>) and
> probably others sell* a DVD or series of CDs containing
> all of CTAN as
> it was in November 2005
DANTE still does it, but I don't know how much it costs.

> Actually, x varies depending on the space between lines,
> the width of
> the font, the ratio of height to width, the average length
> of words in
> a line and myriad other factors. But as a rule of thumb,
> 60 <= x <=
> 70.
But it's *roughly* 60 words per line at least. That was what
I meant.

>> LaTeX also makes the spaces at the beginning of lines
>> wider
>> for some reason IIRC.
>
> Huh? Spaces at the beginnings of lines? Do you mean
> between lines?
Argh, bad wording. Sorry. I meant that the spacing between
words is wider at the beginning of the lines and decreases
towards the end of lines. At least the TeXbook says so.

Yours,
Carsten

NB: We're moving houses atm, so I haven't got much time. Probably you
won't see me for a looooong time from August on, since I have to leave
home for most of the time then due to beginning an apprenticeship in
Braunschweig (yes, that's where Jörg Rhiemeier lives as well). Later
more.

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