[pkg-bioc] CVS %p

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 May 2007 at 19:55, CVS User smoe-guest wrote:
| Update of /cvsroot/pkg-bioc/papers/useR2007
| In directory alioth:/tmp/cvs-serv4392
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| Modified Files:
| 	cran2deb.pdf cran2deb.tex 
| Log Message:
| Hello,
| 
| against my plans I found some typos. In the text you find many
| 
| %SM:
| 
| lines that explain why I think things should be changed. Sometimes
| I have done the change, sometimes not. At a _few_ places I was mourning
| a bit for some previously submitted changes that did not make it
| to the current version.  What made it a bit difficult for me was
| that I could not distinguish between
| 
| * Dirk did not like it and
| * Dirk made an error in reverting
| 
| and thus I made about 100 times longer comments about a change than the
| change is itself.

Steffen:

i)  I asked for a weekend meeting on irc/skype/... and no one responded

ii) I asked (repeatedly) for diffs, and not one monstrous file with all
changes comingled.  So sorry, I did not back out all your changes by hand.

| The figure that is in represents one half of the paper, the symbiosis
| of the communities. 

... which has nothing to do with the paper.

| The other half, the build process, could well make
| use a figure, too. However, we do not have space for that, I am afraid.
| I would be prepared to invest the hours tomorrow, if you could send me a
| fax with a hand-drawn figure to +49 451 500 5502 with your vision on that
| to make sure we have a consensus on that front.
| 
| Should we go for multicols? This should resolve our constraints for space

I'd say no as it will just lead to many new rounds of formatting to fit
things. The easiest fix is to go from 1inch spaceing to 0.9, 0.8, 0.75,
... til we get to 8 pages.  Or kill the history.

| immediately. For the references at least this is very common to have. And
| I think we would even be allowed to have these in a slightly smaller font.
| 
| Concerning the length of the paper we can shorten on many fronts, not
| only on the connecting sentences between and at the beginning of the
| sections, where my taste seems to be very different. However, the easiest
| may be to shorten the history section, thus leaving only the
| acknowledgements which should then also leave the appendix to become a
| regular \section*{Acknowledgements}.

Yes.

Can we all meet on-line somehow?  Today? Tomorrow?  Maybe with Elijah?

Dirk
 

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