[libreoffice-users] Re: register true origins

       Andrew, I agree; and I find your words are so beautifully priceless;
          this whole discussion reminds me of the news industry - the way
it was  :-)

       BTW - for you post-computer youngsters, I grew up in the news
industry; reading, writing, and yes having to wash my hands - even clothing
- from the newsprint ink  ;-)



On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Andrew Brager <apb3304@bak.rr.com> 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<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.

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