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J. Scott Coatsworth, AuthorI've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:<a href="https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/</a><a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/bookformatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookformatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/vellum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vellum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/ebooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ebooks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/paperbacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paperbacks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/otherworldsink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#otherworldsink</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritersOfMastodon</a>

Cara BruarTo self publishers, please consider your readers when formatting. There should be white space on the page, not a wall of densely packed text with nowhere for the eye to start or pause. Also non self publishers of course. I read samples before buying. Yesterday, did not buy an otherwise promising book for this reason. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/selfpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfpublishing</a>

Pusher of Pixels<a href="https://dmv.community/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DIY</a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/Formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formatting</a> 😬 <a href="https://thepit.social/@APBBlue" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@APBBlue</a> minor formatting issue on a review of a battery powered nail gun lol

Dendrobatus AzureusI've just finished reading this blog post regarding the markdown Syntax by RL Dane He is also given a brief history of the Computing Hardware and software that he has used ever since he was a little Padawan.The blog post is just a few minutes to read and you shall learn something good from it.TLDR is; use {smackdown} markdown for everything you write that needs formatting and be truly platform independent in your formatted text creation.When you truly understand what he means, it is literal total freedom with formatted text and you don't even need to learn tex or LaTeX, since you will not be writing a book. When you do that you will have to read my posts regarding tex and LaTeX, and those are blog posts I haven't released.For me markdown has been important, ever since I was working on waffle bulletin boards many many decades ago*Bold* _underline_ /italic/ was the syntax that we used back then.Our waffle bulletin board had a special text formatting routine which Made these codes look like they were actually bold underline and italic when we were viewing those emails.On the <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AmIRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmIRC</a> channel on Dalnet we also had a formatting routines for our clients, mine was AmIRC that converted these codes in a similar fashion.So in true Essence markdown has been with us for a very very long time; we just didn't call it markdown then but we made sure that our text formatting had nothing to do with the computer platform we happen to be typing on. <a href="https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Markdown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Tex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tex</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaTeX</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTML</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rl_dane</a>

Radio Azureus<a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rl_dane</a> Do be so kind to explain to me like I'm five, what you've written here in the code block Do you use a special client to get the markdown language or do you know it by heart? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Markdown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/date" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#date</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freeBSD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ghostBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ghostBSD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BSD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Syntax</a>

Pusher of Pixels<a href="https://dmv.community/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UI</a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UX</a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/Formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formatting</a> an email from my medical provider had a weird formatting glitch I've never seen before. (an 'email'/message in their online portal so technically a web page)The words 'medications you' are smashed together such that the s of medications and the y of you are superimposed on each other, but if I select/copy/paste it's correct'medications you'

Gary "grim" KramlichThis is what I imagine people's code looks like when they complain about the forced indentation in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a>. And yes, this code is correct.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#c</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indentation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tabsvsspaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tabsvsspaces</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whitespace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#whitespace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/developers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#developers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/developerexperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#developerexperience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/debugging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#debugging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fail</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/goodluck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#goodluck</a>

Stefan BohacekOh nice."We’re experimenting with potentially changing to a new parser for posts, which will be more modular and enable features like basic text formatting."This is going to be *very* useful.<a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2024/</a>via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/113283988215699567" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/113283988215699567</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/MastodonEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastodonEngineering</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/FortmattingPosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FortmattingPosts</a>

Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱Today I used a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tool</a> I wrote last year, in earnest, and I think it saved me a good few hours of effort. 😇JsonToSmartCsv can reshape <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JSON" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JSON</a> data into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CSV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CSV</a> by following predefined rules. You can use it to flatten rich objects into human readable rows.<a href="https://instantiator.dev/post/hammer-json-into-csv/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://instantiator.dev/post/hammer-json-into-csv/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Data</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Format" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Format</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Converter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Converter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Utility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Utility</a>

Devin Prater :blind:I was just thinking about the whole iOS 18 rumor that there will be word level effects in Messages. So, the accessibility for this could happen in a few ways that I can think of:* VoiceOver uses the "attachment start" and "attachment end" sounds like in Mail for attachments on Mac. * VoiceOver uses pitch or some other speech change to speak the words, each effect maybe having its own speech change. * VoiceOver plays the effect's sound with each word spoken. This seems the most useful to me honestly.But, if they do go with the speech changes, and they also have formatting like bold or italics, this could mark the time when VoiceOver can both show Braille, and speech, formatting. Already, in Notes and the Books app, VoiceOver is able to show formatting in Braille. So if an author uses italics to show that someone is thinking, or bold to show telepathy, or even more important, marks important words in a text book in bold! Very freaking important for homework! Braille readers can know that. So the next logical move is to add that to speech. So, iOS 18 might, just might, be the first mainstream OS with a screen reader to rival Emacspeak! The flexible voice rotor may allow us to configure how formatted text is output as well.<a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iOS</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/VoiceOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VoiceOver</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accessibility</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blind</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#text</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a>

J. Scott Coatsworth, AuthorOne of the many hats I wear is that of book formatter. As an indie author/press, it made sense to do it for myself, and now I do it for other folks too. :)Need a re-release formatted? Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and do formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.<a href="https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/</a><a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/bookformatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookformatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/vellum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vellum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/ebooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ebooks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/paperbacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paperbacks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/otherworldsink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#otherworldsink</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritersOfMastodon</a>

Matt WillemsenHow to recognize AI-generated phishing mails <a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/12/how-to-recognize-ai-generated-phishing-mails" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/12/how-to-recognize-ai-generated-phishing-mails</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/phishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phishing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/emails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emails</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/recognize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#recognize</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#design</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#content</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnexpectedAttachment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnexpectedAttachment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fishy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fishy</a>

Linux MagazineFrom this week's Linux Update newsletter, <a href="https://wandering.shop/@BruceByfield" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@BruceByfield</a> shows you how using styles in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@libreoffice</a> can save you hours of formatting and let you focus on your writing <a href="https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/The-case-for-styles" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/The-case-for-styles</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/style" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#style</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibreOffice</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Writer</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a>

Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱💥🆕 New post! I've finally written up the basics of Open Social Distributor. ➡️ <a href="https://instantiator.dev/post/open-social-distributor/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://instantiator.dev/post/open-social-distributor/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialNetwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#social</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/post" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#post</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facebook</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkedin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linkedin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discord</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thread</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DotNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DotNet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CSharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CSharp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CLR</a>

Delta WyeI took some time to work out the exact <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a> that <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Elasticsearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elasticsearch</a> demands. If you think this might be useful, go ahead and boost. If you find any errors or would like to suggest additions, please also post a reply! Hopefully this can help prevent a lot of frustration and trouble people might encounter and give them a better Mastodon experience!(Updated to Revision 2)

Jon Sparks<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> 20/9. Fonts. My writing format looks nothing like the finished books. My writing font is Cambria, because I find it easy on the eye. With consistent use of Paragraph Styles, it’s easy to convert to Standard Manuscript Format or whatever when needed. My paperback font, from the offerings at Atticus, is Cinzel. The title font for the cover is Big Caslon. <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingCommunity</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ThreeKindsofNorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThreeKindsofNorth</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/TheSunderingWall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheSunderingWall</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amwriting</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/mastobooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastobooks</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/fonts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fonts</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formatting</a>

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