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Best Foot Forward
Since starting work on the Open Source Writing project, I’ve become hyper attentive to many little things that I’d previously overlooked. For example, I’ve started to notice the typefaces in books,...
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Typographic Detail
Note: The normal programming of the website is still temporarily on hold in an effort to finish the Open Source Writing book. I fully intend to pick things up very soon, but I must first send a...
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Formal Versus Modern Design
Note: The regular programming of this website has been interrupted due to a need to finish the Open Source Writing book. It will resume once I have sent a draft to my editor/publisher. They have been...
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Deeply Conflicted
Note: Still working on the book. Making progress, hope to be finished very soon. (Very, very soon.) Regular programming will resume when the draft is sent to the editors. There’s nothing like a...
View ArticleThe Enabling Power of Technology
Note: I have a tentative release date for the book in electronic format, March 31. The print volume will follow shortly. At this point, I am mostly removing things, in the words of Nancy Duarte,...
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Camp KDE, Writing Tools, Whiteboard Presentations
Next Monday, I’m going to be giving a talk entitled “Writing and Publishing With Open Source Tools” at Camp KDE, the annual KDE conference for North America. For those interested in attending, the talk...
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LibreGraphics Magazine and Conference
You know that obsession I’ve got with awesome stuff and the compulsion to share it? Well, it seems to have taken hold this morning. There are two things in the RSS feed today that simply must be...
View ArticleVisual Thinking, Explained
In the Open Source Writing book, I’ve got a section on Visual Thinking. While I’m hardly an expert, the way we perceive and understand the world is a serious interest of mine an I read everything I can...
View ArticleDigital Storytelling
At the moment, I’m entranced with eBooks. There are many reasons for this (and I’m preparing a rather long blog post which explores them), but one rises above all the others: electronic books offer an...
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Importing Word Documents Into LyX (word2lyx 0.1)
For many writers, the act of writing (or placing one word after another) is synonymous with the tool that they use to do it. There’s a reason why writers feel so strongly about their moleskin...
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