I checked out The Big Lebowski's IMDB page and came across this amusing bit. You would think such a classic masterpiece would win many awards and nominations, but that was hardly the case. I suppose it has a cult following of its own, but its appeal in the mainstream may not be that great. May be it had tough competition that year. Fortunately, it did win the Best Foreign Film award from the Russian Guild of Film Critics. That got me thinking if the numerous mentions of The Dude's favorite drink, the white Russian had any bearing on the film winning the Russian award.
... Disaster has struck and the post I had spent a whole day on has vanished because of some incompatibility between Blogger and Microsoft SkyDrive embedding. I will try to recap the contents of that post briefly anyways. The original gcard style sheet is intended for making a small greeting card that gets folded twice, as shown in my previous post . I would like to modify the style sheet to produce a card that gets folded only once. It will have some content on the outside as well as inside. In addition, I want to add features like background image and other figures to make the cards more appealing. Going from a double fold to a single fold That requires that you make the following changes in the file gcard.sty. 1) Double the panel height. %\setlength{\panelheight}{(\paperheight-2\gctopmargin-2\gcbottommargin)/2} \setlength{\panelheight}{(\paperheight-2\gctopmargin-2\gcbottommargin)} 2) Push the inside pages to their respective location next page. %\begin{textblock*}{\panelwidth...
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