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(...) I don't think it's as simple as what _I_ would like (but I'll give suggestions in a minute). It depends on how you're putting it together and marketing the book. If it's going to be made to look like a catalog for a spaceship manufacturer, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) In most cases it helps a lot to set a relative table width, but even then you will sometimes run into problems it parts of the content _is_ wider that the specified table. Jacob (24 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"TWS Garrison" <tgarriso@math.purdue.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.SOL.4.30.0...due.edu... (...) The table issue is being resolved among the website team privately. -Tim (24 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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About the new, improved www.ldraw.org (...) Isn't the problem with the tables not that they exist, but that they're hard-coded to be 700 pixels wide? I would think that simply using percentages or proportions instead of fixed widths and heights (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Agreed. Netscape (Unix) & fonts have never got on particularly well 8?( but the user should be able to decide what size font to display (and all other characteristics) with hints only from the site developer. ROSCO (24 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) That’s one reason why I will not create a model for selling. 1. Too many gray pieces 2. Printing, plus pieces would not make it cost effective. 3. Too much work! lol But, truly the best time for the market was before brickbay, if anything (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Indeed. Order of magnitude or thereabouts! (...) And copy. (24 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Noooo! Just make things right. Also, all those annoying, much too wide tables, makes the site almost completely unusable for me (unless I use lynx). If you want to make a multi-column layout, please do it with CSS. Jacob (24 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Certainly! But I think Tim actually has _tried_ to move closer to the intentions with HTML with this redesign. I have not had time to look properly at the pages yet, so I can not say how close he managed to get. (...) :-) Jacob (24 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) You will find that printing in colour is a lot more expensive than black-n-white. Perhaps an alternative is to publish on a CD-ROM, which is cheap to produce and distribute, and then people can choose to print individual pages if they wish. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.publish)
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