Janine said:
>What *is* necessary to me is
>visible in http://www.terrabionic.com/books. Sure, they look OK. I want
>them to look GOOD ::}

>With your help, that is possible. Please consider it?

>I dunno.

While the subject matter appeals, your texts seem burdened w/ elementary errors of text and formatting

hagakure.pdf pg. 44, last paragraph, third line
"No matter whether one be of high or low rank, a family line is something that
will decline when its trine has come...

``trine''? Surely you mean time?

I guess you're typesetting a Project Gutenberg e-text? IME, they always need to be proofed carefully. Take a look at, Okakura Kakuzo's _The Book of Tea_ in my portfolio at http://members.aol.com/willadams for my experience w/ that. I did, finally get them to accept (some of) my corrections though.

Your documents also have some orphans and widows, and I've never liked space between paragraphs in lieu of indentation, and some pages seem to run short (always do that on a spread---hard for me to check if you've done that though, since your pagination in the .pdf matches up the wrong verso / recto, i.e., 43 and 44 face each other in facing pages view in Acrobat Reader).

You also have some too-long lines (hagakure.pdf pg. 44 has an example of this).

I'd urge you to read a few basic texts on typography so as to at least cover the basics before asking for further help. I've a listing of them in my bibliography on my web site (ob. discl. I'm an Amazon Associate and may profit).

I'd especially recommend Adrian Wilson's _The Design of Books_ and Bringhurst's _Elements of Typographic Style_

William


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