Does it justify the capitalisation? In my mind's eye, nearly all lolcats are in all-caps. Of course i had to be lower-case in mine, so I decided it would be better to lowercase the whole lot than to muck about with small caps or put up with the rest of the text being larger than the i; but I was definitely under the impression that I was going against the normal capitalisation convention rather than with it.
I admit I didn't really think it through. I associated LOLcats with an _absence_ of capitalization, but hadn't really thought about whether that was all-caps or no-caps. I would have guessed no-caps because it's possibly cuter, but also, many image captions are all-caps or no-caps for style reasons, without it being specifically a grammatical choice.
Well, this is clearly the sort of question that needs SCIENCE. Out of the top three screenfuls of Google Image hits for "lolcat" (which was all I managed before deciding I couldn't be bothered collecting any more data), discarding things that are Demotivators-style posters or otherwise not typical image macro work, I count 29 all-caps lolcats, 30 mixed-case and 22 all-lowercase. That seems pretty well balanced, actually. I take back my assertion :-)
Cool :) I did pretty much the same, except that I stopped after 0 pages. Unfortunately, I was quite happy to believe whatever you said, as long as I didn't have to look at any lolcats :)
Its source form is a (pretty grubby and hastily hacked) handwritten piece of PostScript, which depends on the "LMRoman12-Regular" and "LMRoman12-Italic" fonts from the lmodern Debian package. Munging that into a form that can be sent to a PS printer without confusing it is left as an exercise for the reader :-)
Oh good, that actually does work. The last time I tried to use GS in vector-to-vector filter mode, I found it had produced an output file in which the fonts superficially looked right but were in fact rasterisations of the originals, which annoyed me.
Mind you, I think that was using pswrite rather than pdfwrite. Perhaps I was hasty in concluding that it would apply to both.
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Ay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay) has it
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lmodernDebian package. Munging that into a form that can be sent to a PS printer without confusing it is left as an exercise for the reader :-)no subject
(by just changing your -sDEVICE=pnggray to -sDEVICE=pdfwrite)
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Mind you, I think that was using
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Mind if post the image and/or a link to this entry to
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