What's everyone up to right now?

[arewethereyet]

Just finished making pillows for oldest granddaughter.  I think I have gotten all the work out of my sewing machine that I can.  The new one is supposed to be delivered tomorrow.  Now I need to find something to entertain myself with for the evening.

[Rev. Rye]

So, for whatever reason, a couple days ago, I decided to try and digitise an old copy of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck. Surprisingly, I found most of the text in a free PDF. And for whatever reason, possibly because the text in the original PDF was Arial, I decided to play with the fonts and I latched onto one of the ones I downloaded: Olympia Congress. I thought it looked great, but there was one major problem: Not all the symbols available in the standard fonts were available in this one I loved.

Diacritics (like, say the umlaut u, which was in the author's last name, Büchner, or the accents used by a carnival barker that I only just now figured out was supposed to be French) were unavailable. Despite brackets being a critical device used in the annotations, they were, for whatever reason, not available in that font. In both cases, I had to resort to taking said characters from Courier, bolding them, and making them into a bigger point size.

This was not helped by my decision to add a linkable table of contents. Once I figured that out (though I haven't been able to make it update automatically), I had to deal with the fact that, once I closed OpenOffice, even if I saved it, the links vanished as soon as I reopened the document. So, for a couple hours, I had to update it, manually delete and recreate the table of contents (complete with manual updates) until I discovered that I had to save it to ODT instead of DOC to preserve that formatting.

After I got rid of all those problems, one problem remained: there's a lot of em and en dashes, and the font doesn't really allow for all three types of dashes. So, every so often, I would try and manually review the document for each dash and correct it myself. Then, every so often, I'd try and export it as a PDF and I'd find several dashes I'd miss. And less than an hour ago, I FINALLY decided to just do a CTRL-F and replace it like that.

Finally, on my tenth eleventh (this one being a line from a quatrain whoae formatting somehow got all FUBAR) attempt at exporting it to a PDF, I finally have it in a format I'm satisfied with. There's a couple errata, odd spacings and such, and some formatting artifacts that I haven’t been able to remedy, but, fortunately, the ones that I can actually fix at least help add to the pseudo-typewritten character.

[Angrboda]

Late night watching baseball. I had a second helping of enchiladas for dinner and overdid it. Feeling like a beached whale, I lay down for a bit. Several hours passed before I rose again.

[ignoramus]

^
So you're OK?
I was about to call Greenpeace

[Angrboda]

Relaxing with some rooibos tea.

[Angrboda]

Watching baseball.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Heading out to market. I hope they have baguettes, so I can feel like a film star on the walk home.

Boru

[Duty]

Watching baseball.

Do you have to pay for those matches? Me? Drinking beer, although that's so par for the course I'd never usually mention it...

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Heading out to market. I hope they have baguettes, so I can feel like a film star on the walk home.

Boru

Neelix got his baguettes snatched in ST Voyager...moreover, are you going to get an avatar or not Buru? I'd be happy to make one for you if you lack the software - just gimme the specs...it looks shabby for you to have a big "avatar fail" avatar IMHO.

[Gwaithmir]

Just got up from a nap. Forgot what day it was. 

[onlinebiker]

Just got up from a nap. Forgot what day it was. 

As long as you have the planet right, you'll be fine..