[Sca-cooks] Looking for some feedback on a new Florilegium format

[Rebecca Friedman]

I've done a certain amount of reading the Florilegium on my iphone... 4, I
think, which is a fairly small one. For whatever it's worth. It's a bit
inconvenient but not terribly; I still found it usable for casual reading.
Though I have young eyes.

Rebecca

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Stefan li Rous <stefanlirous at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alec Story said:
> <<< One thing to be aware of if you move to PDFs is that PDFs display
> terribly on small screens, while good HTML reflows to fit the screen size
> very nicely.  If you move to PDFs, you may find that people on mobile
> devices avoid your site. >>>
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> Ah, thank you. Due to my eyesight problems I don’t use my iPhone as much
> for web and email access as I’d originally planned on. Although I can now
> do much better with my larger iPhone 6s Plus, I still do most of my web
> viewing on my iPad or desktop Mac. So I really wasn’t aware of whether this
> affected other people or not.
>
> <<< The number of people using primarily mobile devices is not actually
> that small today, and is only going to grow.  I might also point out that
> the current layout is pretty mobile-hostile, since the fonts get itty-bitty
> on mobile.  I'm not sure how much of that is fixable given how badly word
> generates html (1) >>>
>
> Unfortunately, captured emails have inserted carriage returns at the end
> of each line. Unfortunately, it has been impossible for me to remove these
> by computer, since it is difficult to differential between carriage returns
> at the end of each line which I want to remove, and carriage returns at the
> end of paragraphs which I want to keep.
>
> While I sometimes try to remove the end-of-line carriage returns by hand,
> it is time-consuming so I often can’t do it.
>
> So my message files (-msg) are likely to still be problematic on small
> screen devices.
>
> Articles with better formatting are unlikely to have this problem,
> although if I freeze the format by using PDF, they might still be
> problematic on small devices.
>
> Glenn said:
> >>> Of course PDF's can be designed in a responsive layout now.  But since
> the common reason for PDFs is to fix the layout for print, and not many
> people know how to make responsive PDF's or have Acrobat handy, then this
> is probably a mute point.
>
> I’m not I can guarantee that any PDFs submitted to me will follow this
> format. I have enough trouble just getting people to submit things. :-(  .
> And yes, I do have a number of submissions that I haven’t been able to
> translate from PDF and use. Once I’ve gotten the display/formatting
> problems solved, I plan on getting a lot of these online.
>
> I’m leaning toward coverting the submitted PDF files to HTML, if I can
> find a good method/program and perhaps including a copy of the PDF
> available as a link, as I do the original Word or RTF file, for the
> editors. Editors are supposed to let me know when they publish something
> from the Florilegium, but either they aren’t letting me know or they aren’t
> republishing from the Florilegium, in which case I’m spending a lot of
> effort trying to help them, for nothing.
>
> Stefan
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