Typesetting – getting down to it
The time has come to teach myself some of the finer points of typesetting before putting all the content together. This is the last day of 2023 and I’m bracketing what I need to learn through daily…
Editing, Proofing, Typesetting
I have finally got to the stage of getting all my poems out of various locked PDFs online and into simple text files. For various reasons it has taken a very long time. It is fascinating to…
Into the weeds
Finally, after much searching and working through tutorials and help pages, I’ve managed to wrestle the info I need about being able to control how I can manipulate text even down to the finest detail (picas and…
Another Rabbit Hole
Part of this whole process of book making is the side alleys and rabbit warrens you serendipitously wander into when hunting for resources; if you have the time it is a wondrous place to explore. Predictably I…
Just My Type
One of the many skills I have to relearn is typesetting – I’ve elected to go with Affinity Publisher 2 on both the Mac and the iPad. It’s cheap but will it do the job? My ongoing…
Retracing Footsteps
The past often slipped into view, like a ghost that wants to remind the living that its work on earth is not done. A Demon Land – Monica Black The past definitely slipped into view when I…
Doves?
I have now collated all the poems I could find (I’m sure others will emerge). Now comes the difficult task of starting to typeset them all. Which font to to use? Well some time ago I bought…
The Perils of ‘Automatic’ Writing
I have spent a lot of time recently on automating the writing process on both computers and in analog notebooks (i.e. “journaling” – spit) – sometimes to the detriment of actually getting on with the work in…
Illness and procrastination
The last few months have been filled with illness and then deep seated procrastination. That is about to change. With my last bout of food poisoning I am determined to get up and running once more. I’m…
Where does it go?
I have now been inactive for a few months; the perils of coming up to retirement from filmmaking in the educational sphere. When I say inactive, I mean purely in the maintenance of this blog. In the…