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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=51657#p51657]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:+WaterCountMaxRowLengths done.

• â–¢ Reserve venue.
  â–¢ Glasses: n people × m wines ⇒ at least nm recently cleaned glasses.
  â–¢ Print and bring placemats.
  â–¢ Bring sample jars.
  â–¢ Bring T-corks.
  â–¢ Bring a good corkscrew.
  â–¢ Bring a decanting funnel.
  â–¢ Bring muslin or coffee filter.
  Also:
  â–¢ Invite JDAW.

jdaw1 wrote:Somebody in Belfast (probably Daniel) suggested that there should be one extra page, fixed and unchanging (bar fonts), being a check list for the organiser.

Item to go on checklist include:

• â–¡ Invite JDAW
  â–¡ Glasses: n people × m wines ⇒ at least nm glasses, which have been recently cleaned.
  â–¡ Room hire.
  â–¡ Print and bring placemats.

Presumably the list was to be longer than this what else?

Please could that Belfast person say what else is to go on the list, and please could others comment on the idea.

As items are suggested I’ll edit this post.

djewesbury wrote:I think it was Derek.

jdaw1 wrote:Though echoing the suggestion, I’m not convinced by it. Often it isn’t the organiser who prints the placemats. And often enough the person who prints the placemats doesn’t really look at them until set-up time, that is, until it is too late. So I’m not (yet) convinced of the merits of the extra page.

DRT wrote:Perhaps we should simply add a check list to this thread?

â–¢ Glasses: n people × m wines ⇒ at least n × m recently cleaned glasses

djewesbury wrote: insufficiently clear. Spares are needed

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1687]Here[/url] the Team wrote:â–¢ Glasses: n people × m wines ⇒ at least n × m recently cleaned glasses, plus spares.

www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/page_size_advice.html wrote:All page sizes are assumed to have margins of 30 points ! ≈ 0.42″ ≈ 10.6 mm. On the chart colours are pages sizes (  A4 in dark blue  ,  A3 in light blue  ,  US Letter = 8½″×11″ in red  ,  US Legal = 8½″×14″ in brown  , and  US Ledger = 11″×17″ in orange  ). The various marker shapes are the classes of elements of PermittedPackingStyles. The thick lines show the largest for each page size, these being reached or almost reached by the default value of PermittedPackingStyles. The thin lines are the values for /PostsAndLintel, assuming that the flag /CentralGlasses is at the default of 0.

RAYC, in the [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=68059#p68059]thread entitled [i]Thu 19th December 2013: The Unknown Shipper at the Bell[/i][/url], wrote:Despite a minimal amount of waste, having 2 sets to each sticker sheet (with a blank column) means that certain people do not have to juggle two individual (and fiddly) strips of stickers during the tasting. For some reason i adopted Ray's stickers last year and had to deal with this - was not ideal. If the blank column could be the middle column, that would be perfect in terms of a quick "chop and distribute". Obviously disregard if it requires a lot of code.

/StickyLabelsNumCopies 0 def
/StickyLabelsTypes [0 1] def

/StickyLabelsPaperType {[/A4 /A4] StickyLabelsTypeThis get} def
/StickyLabelsByNameWhichReplaceCirclearrays {StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitNumRows StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitNumCols mul 24 gt} def
/StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitNumRows {[4 13] StickyLabelsTypeThis get} def
/StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitNumCols {[2 5] StickyLabelsTypeThis get} def
/StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitGapL 12 def
/StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitGapR 12 def
/StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitGapT {[36 31] StickyLabelsTypeThis get} def
/StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitGapB {[36 31] StickyLabelsTypeThis get} def
/StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitGapBetweenRows 0 def
/StickyLabelsWithPagePortraitGapBetweenCols 8 def
/StickyLabelsOrientationAutomatic true def  % of labels, not of paper. Boolean.
/StickyLabelsOrientation /Landscape def  % of labels, not of paper. /Landscape /Portrait. Ignored if StickyLabelsOrientationAutomatic.
/StickyLabelsColumnsChangeFaster {[true false] StickyLabelsTypeThis get} def
/StickyLabelsFirstPageStartPosition 0 def
/StickyLabelsPaddingWithPagePortraitTB {[12 6] StickyLabelsTypeThis get} def
/StickyLabelsPaddingWithPagePortraitRL {[6 3] StickyLabelsTypeThis get} def
/StickyLabelsReverseOrder false def
/StickyLabelsRemoveDuplicatesByWithinTitles true def
/StickyLabelsSortByWithinTitles true def

jdaw1 wrote:How should this be parameterised?

jdaw1 wrote:Hmm. How about a boolean StickyLabelNewPageAfter, intended to contain arbitrary code?

PhilW wrote:How about /StickyLabelsAllowAcrossPages

The Huffington Post, on 20 Dec 2013, in an article entitled [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-jennings/in-the-spirit-of-the-seas_b_4478253.html]In the Spirit of the Season: Charity and Vintage Port[/url], wrote:

djewesbury wrote:You have a twitter account. You can sign in with that as well. Or shall I?

jdaw1 wrote:Roy Hersh has drawn my attention to the ‟competition” at winefolly.com/tutorial/wine-placemats/.

Different, and not without merit, but I prefer mine. Comments welcomed.

djewesbury wrote:the placemats Roy sent

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=107]Roy Hersh[/url], by email, wrote:I am now traveling and on a diff computer and don't have TPF log in info here or I'd have responded in the thread.

If you can please just quote me directly:

'This young lady is sharp in that she won the IWSCompetition in London a few weeks back, for Best Wine Blogger 2013, actually a worthy honor. She fact checks and often teaches Somm classes and especially server trainings etc. where six-eight wines are the norm for tasting. I don't believe that Madeline ever conducts tastings like you folks do in London or we do here in the USA with Port and Madeira etc. Two different purposes. Nobody will ever create a program like Julian has for complex tastings. My original email to him was tongue in cheek with the title, "competition" but in reality, there is none.'

DRT wrote:Ah. Yes, it would encourage lazy people like me to venture a score.

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:Ah. Yes, it would encourage lazy people like me to venture a score.

I didn’t want to put it so indelicately, but yes, that would be its purpose.

djewesbury wrote:I found scoring and voting difficult at The Bell because of the number of different pieces of paper, the eccentric numbering, and the need to drink up before drinking more.

DRT wrote:

djewesbury wrote:I found scoring and voting difficult at The Bell because of the number of different pieces of paper, the eccentric numbering, and the need to drink up before drinking more.

All compromises that have to be made if we want to keep up the tradition of using that venue at Christmas with more than four people at the table. I find that trying to take notes in that environment quickly becomes a frustrating distraction to the event, so prefer not to try.

djewesbury wrote:2 rows is far too confusing and probably difficult to use.

Glenn E. wrote:I prefer the 100-pt system because that's what I'm used to.

jdaw1 wrote:There are three obvious ways of arranging a row of stars.

1. Alternating orientations, as already shown.


2. Facing sideways.


3. And on their feet.


For my taste, the third uses too much space, and I favour 1 over 2. But if there is to be more than one row (e.g., for Tom’s scoring system), then each row will look the same, in which case 1 and 2 differ by only a rotation. I still favour 1 over 2.


Any strong views?