I got text-indentation working in the new parser. If a paragraph comes after a chapter heading, or a deliberate line break, the first line of the paragraph will not indent.
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The latest version of my line-break function can handle 98% of the line breaks automatically. That's the good news. The bad news is that, for a longer work, there's still a lot of user input required. For example, on the novel McTeague (100K+ words, 11,360 lines), the program will still need help with 244 of those lines.
By 'help', I mean telling the program where it should hyphenate a word when breaking a line. Do I have some kind of syllabary library? No, not yet.
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I write all of my blog posts in Shanty. It's a big ol' text file, and then I basically have a static-site generator script build out the blog posts from there.
If I had a way to make that a multi-user thing, maybe that could be an alternative to Substack...
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There's always a danger in writing that you can lost in world-building, and never get around to actually telling a story. This blog post by Jessica Abel is a must-read on the subject. https://jessicaabel.com/idea-debt/ I like her phrase "binders of lore."
I have my own idea debt, although it is not for a fantasy series. I think the reason I haven't done anything with it is it's a subject that I've felt doesn't work so well in prose.
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Nantucket E-Books make it easy to add alt text to images in your e-books. In Version 5, I will be going a step further. Along with :source, :alt will be a required attribute for images, meaning if it is not detected the parser will stop and return an error.
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Attach a ZIP folder to your email? No, security risk! Attach a .js file? No, security risk!
Attach a .sh file or just rename the .js to .txt? You got it, man!
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A few good things today:
I have never been more excited about the future of Nantucket E-Books. I will be releasing Version 5 in the spring.
and...
After missing an opportunity some years ago, I finally have a Patrick Nagel poster to hang on my wall.
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"Why aren't chimps still evolving into humans?" I appreciate Richard Dawkins' simple, clear explanation. https://youtu.be/2ELEUT8Domg?si=22g2eD_ZKsodIw0y
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Yes, I am on #pixelfed. I have just started using my account again after a long absence. Come follow me over there!
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/640423333091066938
We'll cover such topics as...
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"Are there any PARANOIDS in the audience tonight?"
Run Like Hell, from Pink Floyd's live album Is There Anybody Out There? https://youtu.be/UKywQ9Ps2sA?si=L_bbe6ta-QdC6NHQ #PinkFloyd
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Do you have a short story idea involving Mickey Mouse? Keep in mind, Mickey wearing gloves enters the public domain this year.
I will pay $50 for the best submission, and it will be a launch title for the all-new Version 5 of Nantucket E-Books coming out this year.
Requirements: it can't be horror, and you agree that it will be published under a free-culture license.
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This web page about accessible EPUB files recommends embedding a sign-language video into the EPUB file.
I feel like I'm missing something here. What is the use-case for this? https://www.accessibletextbooksforall.org/stories/creating-accessible-epub
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So, do you think we'll ever know exactly how the Eraserhead baby creature was built?
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Every time I listed to this song, I feel like it's a whole movie playing in my mind.
"Jan had told him many times, 'It was you to me who taught,
In Jersey anything's legal, as long as you don't get caught.'"
Tweeter and the Monkey Man by The Traveling Wilburys. https://youtu.be/QhzEBf2USJA?si=T6eRntAxjTmwHcqR
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That Vulture article on Neil Gaiman was just about more than I could bear.
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For music while working, I have been very pleased with the YouTube channel Blue Turtle. It's fantasy-themed music, and they make their own simple animations to go on top of it. I would describe the art style as 'ligne claire', like the Tintin comics.
I suspect that if you played all the videos in order, there is some kind of story at work.
https://youtu.be/Paq-0sRPovA?si=ivSdadh0yH-gEpyg
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Why you should #pivotfromvideo back to text:
Text is easier to make. Text is easier to maintain. Text is at least an order of magnitude cheaper to host. When I screw up, I'd rather edit a text file than re-edit and re-upload a video, or have to add "PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION."
Text is more accessible. I'd rather prepare text and alt-text for images than transcribe a whole video or podcast (or drain a few more gallons of Earth's water for AI to do it).
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This has been a helpful website for understanding XHTML. https://www.devguru.com/content/technologies/xhtml/tags-li.html
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"C'mon let's get something to eat" might be one of the funniest lines in any movie. https://youtu.be/3trbNiJcDMM?si=5kjdHShOWB1hNMjc
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"And Shakma...shhhocking audiences everywhere...
SHAKMAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
[#]shakma https://youtu.be/dL3hX1VtgFw?si=KunlJUqH3-i6pRXP
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