[Tugindia] Graphics tutorial

[Kaveh Bazargan]

At 6:11 pm +0530 20/10/02, H S Rai wrote:
>Today at 10:13am +0100 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>
>>   >    HSR> Page  numbers   and  figures   number  may   helpful  in
>>   >    HSR> discussion and for quoting purpose.
>>   >
>>   >Yes, you're right. will provide the fig numbers alongside.
>>
>>   I agree about  figure numbers, but I  am not if page  numbers is a
>>   good idea.  I  take it that this  document can, at the  touch of a
>>   button, be typeset  as a 'print' version, with  A4 pages, etc. Now
>>   for the print version it is usual to have page numbers. If nothing
>>   else, it helps bind the pages  in the right order! I think that if
>>   the screen version also has  page numbers, there will be confusion
>>   regarding which page number one is referring to, the screen or the
>>   print version.
>
>Got your point and agreed 100% on the issue of confusion. But sometime
>we need to refer text and for  that page number is important.  See how
>nicely page numbers  displayed in left panel  for TUGDelhi's inaugural
>report by Amitabh Trehan. To remove  confusion it may be (if possible)
>to have page numbers on screen as S1, S2 etc and for print version P1,
>P2 etc automatically at the same touch of button.

Yes, that might be a good way to distinguish them.

>
>IMO, one  can have printed version  from source for his  convenience ,
>but for discussion and reference purpose on sould refer to only screen
>version as it is "Online tutorial" and released official as such.
>

I always use screen versions anyway, so perhaps this is a good idea.
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Kaveh Bazargan