To: xxxxxx@plover.com
Subject: Publishing delights
Organization: Plover Systems
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:20:03 -0500
From: Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>


I just talked to Xxxxx on the phone.  They had noticed that I was
repeatedly asking for corrections to the alignment of the tables on
pages 33 and 37 but even from looking back at my originals they couldn't
figure out what I was objecting to.   As far as they could tell they
were exactly the same.  So we had a phone conversation.

"OK," I said.  "See the rightmost column, labeled 'Total pairs'?"

"Yes."

"See the numerals 1, then 1, then 2?"  

"Yes."

"See the next one down, the 3?"  

"Yes.  "

"The 3 is about half a character to the right of the 2."

Pause.

"Blimey, you've got good eyesight."

So he said that they would fix it.  I said "Yes, what I want is for
the numerals to be set in neat columns....".   Then I bit off the rest
of the sentence because I had been about to finish "...that look as if
they had been professionally typeset."  I swear I wasn't trying to
slam the typesetters; it just came out that way.

Sigh.