"Réflexions":C&Js, columns

[Robert Keeble <RKeeble@xxxxxxxxx>]

Salut,

On p.26, "route naturelle du texte"

  Many QXP users have requested straddle heads that rest on two or more
columns, and I see layout similar to this used frequently in newspapers for
related stories in adjacent columns. Another user request is columns with
different widths. If I'm reading correctly, the two columns on p.26 should
be separate stories, not one story that flows from the left column to the
right.

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> "l'extermination de la notion même de « petit carré avec une croix » pout
les textes trop ?> longue..."

  Maybe something more like a pinball machine lighting up when you tilt? 8^)
I guess it's pretty small, but I suspect many people have preferences about
its location and whether it blocks text. 


> "Il faudrait pouvoir appliquer une C&J à une zone de texte..."

  Applying H&Js to a range of text within a paragraph, but I confess I don't
understand the reason for it.


p.28,29 Multiple Master fonts

  We have already talked about this, and I understand how practical they are
(would be, for QXP) for the various uses listed.


p.30 formatage des paragraphes

"la gestion des guillemets de seconde rang..."

  Getting 2nd level guillemet support so the open/left guillemet repeats
correctly at line starts. Does ProLexis do this? It sounds like an XT
feature, and I'd guess quote depth is a piece of information that might be
useful to other XTs, for other languages.. I don't think it should be
handled manually like bullets (puces); that's tedious. 

Bullet support is needed.

Alain Hurtig: "...et on a aussi besoin de dire au logiciel : voilà, au début
de chaque paragraphe, tu me mets telle lettre de telle police..."

So for swash (lettrine) characters, let the user select the font and
attributes. And if not using the first letter of the paragraph, allow
selecting a character to be inserted, like a bullet or ornament, or perhaps
as I've seen in many older books, a small graphic like a woodcut.

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On to "Typographie complexe" tomorrow (hopefully)


Rob Keeble
Quark, Inc.