On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > If I'm getting close to the end of a chapter and I'm near the end of an > even numbered page, I need to decide if I want to condense what I say so > it will fit, or go ahead and add two more pages to the book (because I'm > traditional enough that I like chapters to start on an odd numbered page).
That's a typographic convention. The TeX engine does this automatically when you use a book class. You don't have to think about it, it's done. You also don't have to manually set widow and orphan control on because that's also a typographic convention. Another reason why the TeX compiler makes multiple passes over the text is that it balances page lengths. How much time do you spend with OO.o or InDesign changing what you've written so the text on each page is the same height? > To me InDesign is the logical way to create a book. Scribus is too, > because the paradigm is similar, except that Scribus lacks so many > features that it is not usable for much beyond newsletters and book > covers. Good. Be happy. > The reason that InDesign seems logical is because it is exactly the > same process that you would use if you were laying things up with hot > wax. That's for legs, isn't it? At least that's what I've heard women say. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
