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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

We're only going to try to ship one version, A4, english with Ubuntu.

We'll include links to other versions. I believe it's not that hard for
LaTeX to output different versions/different languages.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:27 -0600, Wolter Hellmund wrote:
>
> > I think that we should create a separate version of the titlepage for
> > printing only, which will be simple, and maybe even graphic-less.
>
> I'm starting to worry about an influx of version. There's already A4,
> letter, both in one and double sided editions. All that per language.
> And don't you want this shipped with Ubuntu ideally? More than one
> version won't fly, translations will be an issue already.
>
> > The reason I propose this, is because if we oblige ourselfs to add a
> > thick white margin to our coverpage, not only will it look bad, but it
> > will also save no ink from the user who is printing the manual. Now, in
> > case somebody had the right equipment, he would have no problems in
> > printing without margins.
>
> I don't think it's a given that a white margin has to look bad. We
> should not follow that urge to *fill* the page.
>
> Even with fills to the edge, any text should stay out of the 5mm (plus a
> little something) area.
>
>
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