Re: Xy4 Customization Guide Preview

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan wrote:
> > I do need to use the Zoom function to make out some of it<<

And I need a magnifying glass to read the printout. One ought not look a
gift horse in the mouth, and we are profoundly grateful to Bry for his
labors, but if it isn't too much trouble, could you please increase the
typesize?

It seems fairly obvious that some importing/exporting/formatting has
been done, since the pages are now 8.5 X 11--a very Good Thing: it means
we can print them out and put them in a looseleaf book without wasting
paper. Thanks for that too.
But if that's being done, it should be easy to change the typesize too,
no? And perhaps the font? It's a commonplace in publishing that one
doesn't use sans serif type for long passages: it's too hard to read.
Body Text, as the DTP apps call it, is usually a serif font: Times
Roman, Caslon, any of the Garamonds, Century, etc. (That was done in the
original: nice old-style font, though I'm not sure which. Paul the type
expert?) Sans fonts are used for headings, captions, and legends. (It's
true that a lot of journals and magazines are disregarding this
nowadays: they think it's "artistic" to print an article in 9-point
Helvetica--and with a pale green screen over it too. Fine if none of
their readers are over 55.)

Patricia M(for Myopia) Godfrey