STONEC@IUBACS.BITNET (SO YOU USE PAGEMAKR TOO...) (02/02/90)
To those of you who just joined the new PageMakr listserv -- welcome! If won't clutter up the airwaves with the full welcome and all addresses again. But if you missed the first welcome, send a reply to me, and I'll forward all of the introductory information. Just so you all know, this new listserv is based out of Indiana University- Purdue University of Indianapolis (IUPUI). In case you like trivia, the full name of IUPUI is in the guiness book for having the longest school name in the world. More importantly, however, this PageMakr list has been running for one week now, and we have over 110 subscribers. As the list grows, many of you will want to ask questions, and urge replies to be sent directly to the asker (not the list) and the asker can summarize once -- thereby eliminating 22 messages on how to paginate in master pages. For now, all discussion is encouraged and welcome to all on the list! Remember to post a question to everyone, send to: PageMakr@INDYCMS Meanwhile I have a question -- is there anyway to make bullets of DIFFERENT SIZES in PM? I've used the PC shortcut of Ctrl Shift 8 But they're too small -- kinda of like a raised period. When I switch to Zapf Dingbats I don't have the screen fonts, so I can't see what my bullet (or circle/box/triangle) looks like until I print. Enlarging the font doesn't seem to help the bullet! I can't see the dingbat -- so what's a desktopper to do? By the way, can I buy some screen font cheaply to allow me to see dingbats in PageMakr on a PC? Thanks in advance for any answers Cindy Stone, Listowner bitnet: stonec@IUGOLD
jak9213@HELIOS.TAMU.EDU (John Kane) (02/02/90)
Bullets: On the Mac, I use the same shortcut, option-shift-8, to get the standard bullet. I often find this bullet to be too small. What I do is increase the font size of the bullet. I rarely use the auto line spacing. There are many reasons for this, but bullets are one of the first that come to mind. For instance, if I am setting 9 point type, I set the leading to 10 points, instead of auto. Then, when I need a bullet, I enter the character for the bullet, and adjust the font size to 12 points on _10 point_ leading. This gives me a larger bullet, without affecting the line spacing. I also use the same trick for setting fractions, like 1/2. I superscript the 1, but use a large font size than normal. I leave the /2 on the baseline, ie. I don't subscript the 2. I then make the 2 a smaller font size. I finally kern the 1 and / closer together, and sometimes need to kern the / and 2 closer. The effect is pretty good. John Arthur Kane, Systems Analyst, Microcomputer Support and Training Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (409) 845-9999 jak9213@helios.tamu.edu profs: x043jk@tamvm1.tamu.edu