Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

On 2012-08-07 01:03, Andrew Brager wrote:
> On 8/6/2012 6:47 PM, Dan wrote:
> > Doug wrote:
> > > On 08/06/2012 08:58 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
> > > > On 07/08/2012 at 02:40, Andrew Brager<apb3304@bak.rr.com>  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Without meaning to fan the flames, can you provide another citation
> > > > > outside of LO that supports the theory espoused?
> > > > That "register true" is for "adjust to baseline" or whatever?
> > > >
> > > > Take any book about typography. I can cite at least three different 
> > > > book titles
> > > > from memory that will support it. But they are all in Polish, so I 
> > > > doubt they
> > > > will be much of use here.
> > > ROTFL!  --doug
> >
> > http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lswiki.nsf/dx/General_Glossary_ls301
> >
> > I found this link. You will have to search down through this article. 
> > Lotus, I believe is an IBM product as in Lotus Symphony. It has the 
> > same two paragraphs that LO and AOO have.
> >
> > --Dan
>
> Again, without meaning to fan any flames or otherwise sound insulting, 
> quite frankly in my opinion the link is a weak one for various 
> reasons, including lack of a verifiable author with impressive 
> sounding credentials.  I was looking more for something along the 
> lines of a historical citation.  Perhaps a book or article about the 
> history of the printing press, newspapers and/or typography.  Towards 
> that end I looked at various sources for typography, none of them 
> mention "register true" that I could find. A google search on register 
> true turns up only the LO help page.
>
> It's just odd to me that something that is supposed to have been in 
> use for many years isn't mentioned anywhere authoritative (other than 
> perhaps a few Polish books in Miroslaw's memory).  Granted the term is 
> relatively obscure, but "parellelepiped" is in the dictionary and that 
> arguably is even more obscure.  Other obscure words include 
> "ninnyhammer" and "flibbertigibbet" which I've only just learned.
Andrew:

Try googling for the following, starting on page 23.


 Bookbinding and Its Auxiliary Branches: Punching, crimping, cycletting ...

By John J. Pleger


TomW

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