From mikal@stillhq.com Mon Jan 28 22:35:20 2002 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:35:02 +1100 (EST) From: Michael Still To: Thomas E Young Subject: First draft of my libtiff article Mr Young, please find attached the first draft of my libtiff article. I would much appreciate your feedback as to whether you think I am on the right track or not. I have the following comments to make as well: - I have had to cut down the original scope of the article to fit it into the word limit. The article still runs over at about 2,500 words to my count. This article only discusses black and white images in the simplest sense -- more could be discussed on this issue, and color really deserves at least one article of it's own. - To this end I have retained the series tag in the XML for the article, because it is probably worth considering if this article should be one of a series in order to better cover the issues involved. - I have retained the PDF and ZIP tags, because I would much appreciate there being a PDF version of the article online. I have a series of files for the zip file which I have just included in the tarball attachment to this mail for now. - Should the related content list be populated with anything at this time? - Xview (which comes with most linux distros) has trouble viewing the output of the writing example. The gimp does a much better job. In fact, I had trouble finding a black and white image which xview would view correctly. I am looking into a patch for xview to make it work properly, but this will take more time (perhaps a couple more days). There is a sidebar about this which I will populate when I have more details. - How should I encode an em dash (--)? - I would appreciate some feedback about what the article will look like once formatted. Is is possible to send me a PDF version from your converter? I know what other articles on the site look like, but I want to make sure that the article flows nicely and paragraphs et cetera aren't too big. Thanks for your feedback, Mikal -- Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) UMT+11hrs [ Part 2, "" Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "draft1.tgz") 25KB. ] [ Unable to print this part. ]