How do we feel about typesetting non-spoken, non-thought dialog or text, like a letter or email or SMS exchange? #formatting #publishing #layout

#DIY #Formatting 😬

@APBBlue

minor formatting issue on a review of a battery powered nail gun lol

"I once opened a #manuscript that was built almost entirely from lists—page after page of bullet and numbered steps. It looked organized, and it was easy to skim, but something was missing.

"Curious, I stepped back and asked: Who is this #book for? What’s the deeper purpose? The author was #writing for a business audience seeking to understand why they should implement this author’s prescribed method, not just how. But the manuscript did not make that case. It grouped ideas clearly, yes, but it lacked the context and reasoning needed to persuade. The lists were efficient, but they weren’t enough. The lists delivered information, but they didn’t build trust, spark curiosity, or move the reader toward a deeper understanding. In short, the book wasn’t making an argument; it was just presenting facts.

"When #formatting stands in for #storytelling, you risk losing the very engagement you’re trying to secure."
https://janefriedman.com/its-a-book-not-a-slide-deck-avoiding-fast-content-habits-in-your-nonfiction-manuscript/

@gumnos @mwl

If you're ever bored check out TE Lawrence (of Arabia)'s replies to his editor when asked for clarification on spelling etc. in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

There are numerous copies floating about the internet, not least on internet archive, but here's an arbitrary one:
https://web2.qatar.cmu.edu/~breilly2/odyssey/Seven_Pillars.pdf

#Arabia #Books #Editing #English #Language #Formatting #Arabic #Arab #NationBuilding #WW1 #theGreatWar #warfare #war #leadership #gonads #honestlyGreatBigBrassOnes #books #publishing #youHaveToReadItToBelieveIt #asymetricWarfare

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting #formatting #vellum #ebooks #paperbacks #otherworldsink #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

I've just finished reading this blog post regarding the markdown Syntax by RL Dane

He is also given a brief history of the Computing Hardware and software that he has used ever since he was a little Padawan.

The blog post is just a few minutes to read and you shall learn something good from it.

TLDR is; use {smackdown} markdown for everything you write that needs formatting and be truly platform independent in your formatted text creation.

When you truly understand what he means, it is literal total freedom with formatted text and you don't even need to learn tex or LaTeX, since you will not be writing a book.

When you do that you will have to read my posts regarding tex and LaTeX, and those are blog posts I haven't released.

For me markdown has been important, ever since I was working on waffle bulletin boards many many decades ago

*Bold* _underline_ /italic/ was the syntax that we used back then.

Our waffle bulletin board had a special text formatting routine which Made these codes look like they were actually bold underline and italic when we were viewing those emails.

On the #AmIRC channel on Dalnet we also had a formatting routines for our clients, mine was AmIRC that converted these codes in a similar fashion.

So in true Essence markdown has been with us for a very very long time; we just didn't call it markdown then but we made sure that our text formatting had nothing to do with the computer platform we happen to be typing on.

https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html

#Markdown #formatting #programming #Tex #LaTeX #HTML

@rl_dane

@rl_dane

Do be so kind to explain to me like I'm five, what you've written here in the code block

Do you use a special client to get the markdown language or do you know it by heart?

#Programming #Markdown #date #freeBSD #ghostBSD #BSD #Linux #formatting #Syntax

#UI #UX #Formatting

an email from my medical provider had a weird formatting glitch I've never seen before. (an 'email'/message in their online portal so technically a web page)

The words 'medications you' are smashed together such that the s of medications and the y of you are superimposed on each other, but if I select/copy/paste it's correct

'medications you'

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting #formatting #vellum #ebooks #paperbacks #otherworldsink #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

Just discovered a neat little feature of GitLab. If you copy cells from a spreadsheet app like LibreOffice Calc and paste it in a comment there, it turns into a nicely formatted Markdown table.

Does not work as well with other forge software I know of. GitHub does not format the table and adds some weird HTML, and Forgejo just pastes it as an image.

#GitLab #Markdown #spreadsheet #LibreOffice #formatting #forge

Incomplete JSON Pretty Printer
"Format truncated or incomplete JSON into a readable structure."

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting #formatting #vellum #ebooks #paperbacks #otherworldsink #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting #formatting #vellum #ebooks #paperbacks #otherworldsink #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting #formatting #vellum #ebooks #paperbacks #otherworldsink #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting #formatting #vellum #ebooks #paperbacks #otherworldsink #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting #formatting #vellum #ebooks #paperbacks #otherworldsink #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting #formatting #vellum #ebooks #paperbacks #otherworldsink #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting #formatting #vellum #ebooks #paperbacks #otherworldsink #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

#Development #Cheatsheets
Human-readable JavaScript date formatting · A neatly compiled set of practical examples https://ilo.im/162pyi

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#Programming #Coding #Formatting #Snippets #Date #Time #JavaScript #WebDev #Frontend

I just need 1-2 bigger art commissions to survive March (totalling to 150-200€). If you know anyone who needs art, like a fantasy map, book cover, new profile picture, or literally anything - send them my way, please! <3

Contact: hiisikoloart@gmail.com

Alternatively you can drop me a ko-fi brain cell and help me make my debt payments. (:

https://ko-fi.com/hiisikolo_art

#art #digitalart #map #fantasymap #books #bookstodon #disabledartist #kofi #disability #artcommissions #commissionsopen #formatting