Archive: Bookmaking category
I just tried installing my fonts (just Minion and Myriad) onto the lab computer so I could use them in InDesign, and it worked. This makes me very happy. :) And the nice thing is that it automatically deletes them when I log out, so I don't have ...
Today in my History of the Book class we talked about textual criticism, particularly that of the Book of Mormon (my professor, Royal Skousen, is the one doing the critical text of the Book of Mormon). I'd expected it to be dry and boring, but to my surprise I ...
After being sick for almost a week now, I've decided to start doing homework so that I'll be caught up when I finally do get better. For my History of the Book class, we've started reading Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style, which is an amazing book. ...
Today I read about the Reading 2.0 conference, and it's very interesting stuff. For good summaries of the main talks, see Tim O'Reilly's notes.
On a somewhat related note, I'm wondering about how worthwhile it is to be able to produce PDFs on-the-fly from a text/HTML/XML source. ...
It's done! Translating Scripture is back from the press and I'm pretty impressed with the result -- it's just like it's supposed to look. Phew! :) It's crazy to see the months of work in InDesign come to fruition in a real, physical book I can ...
Hmm, I'm tempted to get to work on Sean Crist's image files of Bosworth and Toller (an Old English dictionary) and turn the data into a searchable database, but alas, I have not enough time and too many projects.
At a second glance, it looks like someone's already done it ...
It's done! I finished up Translating Scripture, exported the whole thing to PDF, and sent it to the author, who'll take it to the press tomorrow morning on CD. It's a great feeling to be done -- I've been working on the book for the past few ...
But not quite yet. We moved the deadline to tomorrow morning so we could review the book (Translating Scripture) again and fix any remaining problems. As soon as we send it to press I'm sure the inevitable dread will set in -- what if there's some glaringly ...
Today is pretty much the final day for Translating Scripture -- we're sending it to press on Monday. All the formatting is done, so we're down to just last-minute changes. And I'm redoing the transliteration system, and I've got to find out how to make an authentic copyright ...
Okay, I'm getting really excited about this classics project. :) I went on Project Gutenberg's websites and found that they only have a little over 100 PDFs (118, I think), and all of the ones I looked at were...less than satisfactory. Most likely machine-generated, in fact. And ...
