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Monthly Archives: December 2010
On formatting poems for e-readers — Part V. Use of TeXnicCenter to lay out PDF documents for print publication.
Click here to open the preceding post. TeXnicCenter is a software system available free of charge from www.texniccenter.org It provides facilities for using the LaTeX formatting language to prepare documents suitable for printing, such as books of verse and textbooks. … Continue reading
On formatting poems for e-readers — Part IV. Using the tools.
Click here to open the previous post. This post offers suggestions on two topics: How you might choose a form for a poem so that it will display well on e-readers, and how to use Microsoft Word as an editor … Continue reading
On formatting poems for e-readers — Part III. E-reader formats and conversion routines.
Click here to return to the preceding posting. Different e-readers require documents in different formats. There is no universal standard. Once a text has been formatted and laid out on a page using an appropriate editor, it must be converted … Continue reading
On formatting poems for e-readers — Part II. Editors.
Click here to return to the preceding posting. This posting describes a technology for preparing poetry for e-readers: Editors, including WYSIWYG [What You See Is What You Get] editors. The editors are used to enter a text and lay it … Continue reading
On formatting poems for e-readers — Part I. The nature of the problem.
E-READERS PRESENT SPECIAL PROBLEMS FOR FORMATTING POETRY. One of the challenges in preparing Farewell Rio for publication was to format the poem fragments at the head of each chapter in a way that would look right not only in the … Continue reading
