Comments on: DPCustomMono2 http://markelikalderon.com/2008/02/11/dpcustommono/ Philosophy and Text Fri, 20 May 2011 16:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: algal http://markelikalderon.com/2008/02/11/dpcustommono/comment-page-1/#comment-3458 algal Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:21:29 +0000 http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/02/11/dpcustommono/#comment-3458 <p>Interesting, Mark. I will try this. You are quite right that paper proofreading is the way to go. Paper really focuses your attention on what's printed on it, unlike the protean computer screen. It took me a while to realize the most important tool for a writer is a fast and reliable printer.</p> <p>At the moment, these are my two favorite latex tweaks to produce a special printing style for editing drafts:</p> <ul> <li>very fat right margins (for writing and proofreading marks)</li> </ul> <p>usepackage[lmargin=1cm,rmargin=5cm,tmargin=1cm,bmargin=1cm,marginparwidth=5cm,includeall]{geometry}</p> <ul> <li>display marginal notes from fixme{} commands:</li> </ul> <p>newcommand{fixme}[1]{marginpar{textcolor{red}{fixme}: #1}}</p> <p>There's also double-spacing (obviously), and printing strucken out passages in a special style (colored, or italicized, for instance).</p> <p>With clever use of the the ifthen package, you can turn all these effects on or off just be changing one parameter at the top of your document's master .tex file, or even just by choosing different makefile target.</p> <p>Now if only I could finish getting svn-multi to play well with git....</p> Interesting, Mark. I will try this. You are quite right that paper proofreading is the way to go. Paper really focuses your attention on what’s printed on it, unlike the protean computer screen. It took me a while to realize the most important tool for a writer is a fast and reliable printer.

At the moment, these are my two favorite latex tweaks to produce a special printing style for editing drafts:

  • very fat right margins (for writing and proofreading marks)

usepackage[lmargin=1cm,rmargin=5cm,tmargin=1cm,bmargin=1cm,marginparwidth=5cm,includeall]{geometry}

  • display marginal notes from fixme{} commands:

newcommand{fixme}[1]{marginpar{textcolor{red}{fixme}: #1}}

There’s also double-spacing (obviously), and printing strucken out passages in a special style (colored, or italicized, for instance).

With clever use of the the ifthen package, you can turn all these effects on or off just be changing one parameter at the top of your document’s master .tex file, or even just by choosing different makefile target.

Now if only I could finish getting svn-multi to play well with git….

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