Sunday, August 4, 2013

preparing to publish

Most of today was spent doing fairly unproductive things.  I did get around to making those PDF files which took a lot longer than I expected.  There are a few benifits to PDF files, but they are basically text that you can't edit.  Before creating them, I had to go through all the compiled text files I'd previously created and check to make sure all the formatting was exactly as I wanted.  This meant making changes to the spacing between poem titles, the text, and the margin by going through every page of all the books.  I also made some decent improvements to the location of the section and book titles.

In addition to that interesting work, I also rearranged the folder containing all the publishable materials.  Right now the actual files that I edit are still in their own area, but now I have a cool space with text, PDF, and a set of HTML files that were already on the computer.  All three folders contain exactly the same thing, but each has a slightly unique presentation.  I also have some extras in the folder holding this stuff.  A comic, a drawing I did, and a script that launches the HTML in order, so technically you could read all the books in the correct order by just clicking the file.

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