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There are, of course, versions of improved emacs available for Windows and other operating systemsjdaw1 wrote:A good text editor is a boon, and it should be one that understands PostScript. On a Mac I have used Alpha X, and am now testing Aquamacs Emacs. For a PC perhaps use NotePad++, the specification of which looks encouraging, though the program has not been tested by me.
.jdaw1 wrote:Making Your First Placemat: Advice for Beginners
Emacs is an editor for heavy-weight geeks, and hence unsuitable for a goodly proportion of ‟Beginners”.JacobH wrote:There are, of course, versions of improved emacs available for Windows and other operating systems
Indeed!I was hoping you would follow the links, so as to complete a rather silly joke about text editors (c.f. Wikipedia ‟Editor Wars”).jdaw1 wrote:jdaw1 wrote:Making Your First Placemat: Advice for BeginnersEmacs is an editor for heavy-weight geeks, and hence unsuitable for a goodly proportion of ‟Beginners”.JacobH wrote:There are, of course, versions of improved emacs available for Windows and other operating systems
Proceed with caution.
I rather liked the ‟thoroughly functional, elegant, and occasionally touched with a little playfulness”. It is the objective.On [url=http://dat.erobertparker.com/bboard/showthread.php?t=204202]eRobertParker.com[/url] jdaw1 wrote:As some readers of this fine bulletin board might perhaps already know, I am a regular arranger of and attendee at port tastings. At such events it helps, it really helps, to have a clearly-labelled spot for every glass. Without same, as the evening progresses, confusion comes closer. of course, such placemats should be thoroughly functional, elegant, and occasionally touched with a little playfulness.
I have written a piece of software that makes such placemats. The software is available from my website: www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html for the manual, which links to the PostScript code. Cost: free, that being £0 = $0 = €0 = Â¥0. It’s not even freemium: the premium version is the free version. It’s just that, having gone to the trouble of writing the code, I feel it should be used more and more widely. Please help yourself.
Some examples of output:And if you do good things with it, post here to show off. And if you get stuck, then, time permitting, I might help post here or contact me via email.
- 2009.06.11, an ornate placemat, perhaps overly ornate, for a blind tasting.
- 2009.04.18, some great vintages of Taylor, Fonseca, Warre.
- 2009.03.20, an ‘emergency’ tasting of some younger bottles.
- 2009.02.13, a Graham vertical.
- 2009.01.30, a giant horizontal of 1970 ports. There are ten pages per person three for glasses, two for tasting notes, for each of two sessions.
- 2009.01.15 a playful rather than elegant design for an informal gathering of people, each of whom was to bring a bottle or two.
- 2009.01.03 and 2009.01.04, a two-round emergency consisting mostly of port from 1985.
I use fairly sturdy paper in my little ink-jet printer, so the one fold version seems fine. However I suspect that the three fold version would be better using standard copier paper, especially in more humid climates.jdaw1 wrote:Help wanted. I’m not totally confident about the new feature.
The question is, one fold or three. As-is they’re designed for one fold, but that might mean that the corners curl (please test with your printer paper). Should it be a three-fold model? And if so, how far up is the first fold? Folds at one-sixth, one-half and five-sixths of the height? Help please.
This is a good way to do it. Rarely does one desire one-fold (too tall anyway -- unless names need to be so large that drunk people can read them), instead two or even three folds are better. Three, you ask? Well the third fold is usually only an inch wide and used as a tab for taping to a primary side.jdaw1 wrote:Added a parameter PlaceNamesFirstAndThirdFoldsFromEdge. If this is 0 then it’s one-fold; otherwise it determines the distance of the extra folds from the top and bottom edges.
My three-fold layout is slightly different. Always there is a fold in the middle. Also folds the same distance in (PlaceNamesFirstAndThirdFoldsFromEdge) from the top and bottom edges. If you want to tape, make this distance ≥72pt = 1 inch. But there oughtn’t to be a need to tape.SushiNorth wrote:Rarely does one desire one-fold (too tall anyway -- unless names need to be so large that drunk people can read them), instead two or even three folds are better. Three, you ask? Well the third fold is usually only an inch wide and used as a tab for taping to a primary side.
My preference would be for the symmetrical version. I will rarely tape the place names and would rely on the weight (little as it is) of the place name to hold the folds in place. If I did happen to have tape, I simply fold the paper so as to create space for a bit of tape on the underneath.jdaw1 wrote:OK, a rethink. Help needed. Currently my design is symmetrical around the middle of the paper. That means that taping must happen at the bottom, underneath. But an asymmetrical layout (say, relative heights of 1:5:5:5) would allow the taping to happen on the inside of a visible face. That might give greater stability of posture.
Thoughts?
Heh, beat me to it. I just tried adding it to the placemats from last night.g-man wrote:A suggestion for improvement for the software that makes placemats.
An addition of Wiseman's Rule #1 should be placed in the bottom corner next to the water check marks.
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Title: (H2O)
Subtitle: (Water)
Circle Array: [ (Drink at 4% = 5 pints per bottle) ]
FillText: (Hydrate thy self)
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[(H) {SubscriptOn} (2) {SubscriptOff} (O)]Code: Select all
[(H) {0 CurrentFontSize -0.5 mul rmoveto} /twosuperior {0 CurrentFontSize 0.5 mul rmoveto} (O)]I don’t understand what you want. Do you mean an ‟edition” of Wiseman’s Second Rule i.e., its text; or did you really mean an ‟addition”?g-man wrote:An addition of Wiseman's Rule #1 should be placed in the bottom corner next to the water check marks.
worried it'll be mistaken for Hoopers 1920? was such a thing even made?jdaw1 wrote:H20 Subscript
1. I did not write that which you quoted.SushiNorth wrote:worried it'll be mistaken for Hoopers 1920? was such a thing even made?jdaw1 wrote:H20 Subscript
Indeed, I should have said "Re Jdaw1: H20 with subscripting" to avoid confusion.jdaw1 wrote:1. I did not write that which you quoted.