Hello All,
I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to present it to the LyX-users list for thorough criticism with respect to typographical and graphical layout. I think we could learn some interesting things here (at least I could). I shall not go into the content of the document, but only say that in my opinion, this document is of major importance and therefore ought to have perfect layout. However, looking closely at the document it is clear that it was not prepared using LyX! I have this feeling that, apart from several errors, a lot of typographical rules have been broken or ignored - and also some graphical ones when considering the letterhead. In my opinion the letterhead is poorly designed. The little black bar in the top left corner annoys me, why is it there? The line reading "(The Academy for Sciences for the Developing World)" seem badly placed shifting the entire block right of the vertical bar. The document contains several errors as far as I can tell: there is a white space missing after (ii) and the vertical white space between 67. and 68. institutions should not be there. Furthermore, I am not sure I like the choice of fonts (and the high number of fonts used). Finally, I have this feeling that all blocks of text are aligned in an unpleasing way, but I cannot say what exactly triggers this feeling. Perhaps somebody can? Martin
