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Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

102.0. "On the layout of software.reference" by SHIRE::ZGRAGGEN (Searching for infinity...) Fri Mar 13 1987 04:19

    I have had a few complaits, including myself, about the replacement for
    the LAYERED format, i.e. software.reference, we what the large paper
    size. The paragraph margin ident is way to far to the right. Actual
    text only uses the right two thirds of the page, it looks un-balanced
    and ugly. My questions are:
    
    	1) Do you agree with this or is it the way you designed it?
    	   If you agree with me, will it be modified to be more pleasing?
    
    	2) I have tried changing it, moving the ident to the left, this
    	   worked. But when using <COMMAND_SECTION> I got a lot of over
    	   printing on the section names, e.g. "COMMAND PARAMETERS",
    	   "QUALIFIERS" etc.
    
    Any hope?
    
    Peter
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102.1SOFT.HANDCLOSET::ANKLAMFri Mar 13 1987 09:406
    
    LAYERED was replaced with SOFTWARE.HANDBOOK, not SOFTWARE.REFERENCE.
    Are the release notes incorrect?  I'll check. SOFTWARE.REFERENCE
    replaced VMSREF...
    
    
102.2Ummmmmm....SHIRE::ZGRAGGENSearching for infinity...Fri Mar 13 1987 13:599
    OK, I've re-read the release notes, correct s.h is the replacement for
    layered and s.r is not. As I mentioned in .0 the reason we used s.r was
    because of the page size, we await the arrival of the /PAGE_SIZE=A4
    qualifier. I'll recommend that people use s.h for now. 
    
    But, the basic problem with s.r still remains, it is ugly, compared
    to s.h to look at, it presents ifself as unbalanced, shifted.
    
    Peter