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PDF, ePUB and Mobi versions of “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”, from LaTeX source
http://hpmor.com/
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Visual asymmetry in horizontal rule under chapterOpeningQuote #143

Closed twilight-flower closed 1 year ago

twilight-flower commented 1 year ago

Chapters with opening quotes currently look like this, in the PDFs:

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For the most part, this layout holds together pretty well. However, there's one specific fashion in which it seems clearly aesthetically suboptimal: the horizontal rule between the opening quote and the first paragraph. Or, more particularly: the fact that said horizontal rule has much less empty vertical space above it than below it, giving it an awkward sort of asymmetry.

To fix the issue, I suggest adding additional empty space above the horizontal rule, to render it symmetric. (Or, if there's some reason this was considered and rejected, I'd be interested to know what the reason is, for purposes of figuring out a better alternative.)

entorb commented 1 year ago

Thanks for pointing this out. I suggest removal of the line (which I have introduced when I added the chapterOpeningQuote env). Would that make sense for you?

twilight-flower commented 1 year ago

That makes sense, yeah. Possibly accompanied by slightly-thicker margins, in order to offer a clear visual indication that the opening quote should be taken as an epigraph rather than as a normal-text-block-with-a-mysteriously-large-space-underneath?

entorb commented 1 year ago

Please check the new WIP release in approx 20 minutes from now: https://github.com/rrthomas/hpmor/releases/tag/WorkInProgress

twilight-flower commented 1 year ago

Checked it; it looks good!

entorb commented 1 year ago

Great. Will close this issue now, a new release should be created once the other footnote issue is fixed too.