Over in the Renegade Bookbinding server, someone was having difficulty with kaomoji. These Japanese-style emoticons can be tricky to typeset. The story in question used these kaomoji (in text messages). ( ˘ ³˘)♥ (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ (≧∀≦) (；￣Д￣） ( ᗒᗣᗕ ) ՞ (♥ω♥*) (*╯-╰)ノ ｡゜(｀Д´)゜｡ (*≧▽≦) (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ My colleague didn’t understand...

In typesetting any long-running chunk of text to fit on physical sheets of paper, page-breaks will inevitably happen, and some of those page breaks will inevitably happen in ways that don’t please us. When this happens, we often have several approaches for curing these unpleasant page breaks, but choosing the right...

Previously. Some members of the Renegade Publishing server requested an example of my typesetting process. I used Pandoc to do the initial conversion of the fic text to LaTeX source; it gets 80% to 90% of it how I want it, though some cleanups are required in some places. Pandoc can read the source HTML directly...

Completion Date July 2023 Author paraTactician Work The Vienna Game Fandom Homestuck Binding PoD hardcover (A5) Fonts Body text in Spectral; various design elements in Tomorrow, Noto, Drum N Bass, Expletus Sans, and Alternian Software LuaLaTeX (memoir class for interior, bookcover for cover) I don’t remember a lot...

Completion Date July 2023 Author paraTactician Work The Vienna Game Fandom Homestuck Binding PoD hardcover (A5) For more details, see the blog post.

Completion Date March 2023 Author fialleril Work everything I have ever learned Fandom Star Wars Original Trilogy Printing HP Color Laserjet MFP M283cdw / Hammermill Fore Multi-purpose paper 75 gsm Binding Single-signature sewn (5.5 in x 8.5 in) Font Domitian by Daniel Benjamin Miller Software LuaLaTeX (memoir class...

Completion Date March 2023 Author fialleril Work everything I have ever learned Fandom Star Wars Original Trilogy Printing HP Color Laserjet MFP M283cdw / Hammermill Fore Multi-purpose paper 75 gsm Binding Single-signature sewn (5.5 in x 8.5 in) Second Straylight Press edition. For more details, see this blog post.

Completion Date October 2022 Author fialleril Work everything I have ever learned Fandom Star Wars Original Trilogy Printing HP Color Laserjet MFP M283cdw / HP Premium 32 paper Binding Single-signature sewn (5.5 in x 8.5 in) Font Domitian by Daniel Benjamin Miller Software LuaLaTeX (memoir class for interior,...

Completion Date October 2022 Author fialleril Work everything I have ever learned Fandom Star Wars Original Trilogy Printing HP Color Laserjet MFP M283cdw / HP Premium 32 paper Binding Single-signature sewn (5.5 in x 8.5 in) For more details, see the blog post.

Completion Date October 2006 Author Brian Randall (durandall) Work Various Fandom Various Binding PoD paperback (6 in x 9 in) Font Titles and body text set with Gentium version 1.02 Some decorative glyphs from Code2000 Cover text in ITC Braganza Software XeLaTeX (book class) ⊕ The cover image was derived from a...

Recently at a guerilla publishing meetup, one of the attendees mentioned she had wanted to make an alethiometer font but had run into technical troubles. I replied that Iʼd had success making an icon font for one of my projects, and offered to explain how to do it. So, hereʼs a tutorial. Prerequisites You will need...