On dinsdag 7 september 2021 11:26:15 CEST Gard Spreemann wrote: > Diederik de Haas <didi.deb...@cknow.org> writes: > > I wanted to print the Debian Social Contract, which turned out to be WAY > > more difficult then I expected and then it should be. > > ... > > Are any of these helpful? I'm happy to do more iterations – perhaps > using LuaLaTeX and better fonts? This is so far just rushed lunch-work: > > https://nonempty.org/~gspr/social.tex > > https://nonempty.org/~gspr/social.pdf
I only looked at the pdf and it's a very nice start, thanks! Couple of remarks, all in my opinion of course: - I don't know if there is or should be different versions based on paper size (A4 vs US Letter). - I like to have a header which is repeated on all pages and a footer which says "Page X of Y", so you know those (currently 3) pages belong together and know the sequence and how large it is in total. In my LO Writer attempt, I had "Debian Social Contract" on the first page as header and "Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)" on second, but I squeezed things to fit in those 2 pages. Probably not worth aiming for. *If* there is an official location for the Social Contract, like https://www.debian.org/social_contract then I'd like to have that in the page header or footer as well. - it's not in f.e. the web page, but I'd suggest the "Supersedes Version 1.0 ..." on a new line. This prevent the case where '1997' is on a line on it's own. It's all in 1 line on my printed version, but I decreased margins. (Whether version history should be part of the document itself is a separate matter, so I'll leave that aside) - the header "Debian will remain 100% free"* (f.e.) should be on its own line and I prefer it to be in "bold" or something like that to visually make a distinction between the header and the text. - ideally an item of the Social Contract should fully on 1 page. The amount of white space on especially the first page is quite high and if that gets reduced, item 4 should fit on the first page as well. The amount of white space at the bottom of the pages seems rather high as well. It doesn't bug me, but if you want/need some extra lines to put text in, you could squeeze some from that. But not too much as some printers may then run into issues ;-) It's possibly hard to realize this in a general case, but I assume doable for this specific document. - the last part after "Example Licenses" is formatted differently on the website from the rest of the Social Contract and that seems correct. The first paragraph gives some history. The 2nd shows a link between The Open Source Definition and the Social Contract. The 3rd looks like a kind of license? (without making it explicit; but also outside the scope of this bug) Cheers, Diederik *) when copying from the pdf the spaces around '100%' vanished, resulting in 'remain100%free'
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