Project: catalog 03
Patron: tesm
Medium: quarkxpress 5.0
Status: draft 2.5
Deadline: August 1st

I still enjoy this project. Even though its a lot of nit-picking and hair-spliting it has such a nice closure factor to it that I forgive it alot of hassle. Essentially the catalog is considered a contract between students and the school. Tesm uses a grandfather system so that old catalogs are still active, though they are superseded by new catlogs. It gets kind of messy, especially since some of the older versions of the catalog is incomplete. Really last year was the first really drive to clarify the catalog. Before it has just been a design project given over to organic growth -- could you say it is like an blighted dwelling, much like most of pgh? Maybe. Maybe that is too harsh. You can't blame the weeds for growing.

So I've finished my first full week of catalog work and I've found:

1. change your format only after you have changed all your text. Especially if your pages are specfically designated Right or Left.
2. Tables are a hassle to work with, but look very sharp when completed.
3. Tables of contents and sub-indexs are also a pain but look sharp when completed. This has been a particular bane for me since I started the project trying to cut down on the number of styles I'm using ... but that is how Quark builds its lists. So I have 21 styles so far, for a 15 chapter document. :(
4. Show people exactly what you mean. I had 10 biblical professors looking up "James 11:11:11" even though the quote says:

"APPROPRIATE BIBLE VERSE THAT EMPHASIZES THIS SECTION OF THE CATALOG COULD BE INSERTED HERE."

It just goes to show nobody actually reads anything in capitals.