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1. R E K (rek@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Mar-2022 06:46:31 UTC R E K

   Formatting text for a story and it is SO fun. Freakin' LOVE Pandoc.
   I have to add a bunch of spaces to get that lovely indent at the beginning of each paragraph, but glad I found a way to do it because it looks a-ma-zing 🤩

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Mar-2022 06:46:29 UTC Tagomago

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     @rek Looks great. Maybe too much space at the bottom?

   • R E K (rek@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Mar-2022 06:46:30 UTC R E K

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     I am a total LaTex noob, but I finally figured out how to modify default settings for headings! By default, there is a ton of vertical space above headings (book class) so I was able to reduce that. Also, now text is centered, and smaller than the default, whoo~

     I also added some words from the story lexicon as footnotes, and works well I think :>!

     Many small victories today.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Mar-2022 06:57:35 UTC Tagomago

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     @rek Also, take a look, it seems there's some indent excess here. Besides, if indents are used to signal new paragraphs and there's a blank line between two paragraphs (as in "obstacle. [...] Across..."), the following paragraph doesn't require indenting.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Mar-2022 07:04:20 UTC Tagomago

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     • DS-Tech Media✅

     @drown @rek Yes, normally Scribus is the way to go, even with its limitations. I'm interested in LaTeX, although once I tried veering a project towards it halfway (written and corrected in LibreOffice's Writer) and I couldn't even figure out how to do it without starting anew.

   • DS-Tech Media✅ (drown@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Mar-2022 07:04:31 UTC DS-Tech Media✅

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     @rek Impressive. I honestly thought LaTeX was for writing out mathematical formulas?

     Also, not a critique of the way you're going about it, but wouldn't it be easiest to use a publishing app like Scribus or the Calligra version? Maybe you have a specific reason for going with Pandoc/LaTeX that I'm not aware of.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Mar-2022 13:32:19 UTC Tagomago

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     • DS-Tech Media✅

     @drown @rek I've been looking into pandoc and I think I'll try what Rek is doing for the next book I'll be laying out later this year.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 11:56:42 UTC Tagomago

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     @rek Maybe you dig: https://keleshev.com/my-book-writing-setup/

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 18:17:34 UTC Tagomago

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     @rek Mmm... after playing with this today I decided I can't use it. Line by line manual kerning/tracking and manual hyphenation control are hard requirements for my lay out works, and those features look nonexistent or quite esoteric in the LaTeX ecosystem. Backing off again... 😓

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 18:54:22 UTC Tagomago

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     @rek It's what I use. You won't like it, it's so GUI-based. But it works. Well, sort of. It has a good load of quirks too. But last time I learned that the Scribus files are just XMLs, so I ended up making most of the edits on a text editor, thus avoiding its legendary slowness handling long documents, and then finished it on the application itself.

   • R E K (rek@merveilles.town)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 18:54:23 UTC R E K

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     @tagomago Yea, I'm a bit of a masochist. It is far from perfect.
     There are better candidates out there I'm sure, ppl keep mentioning Scribus to me.