more on formatting

[mizkit]

…because *I’m* interested even if you’re not. :)

Turns out the method of formatting page numbers, footers, headers, etc, for POD isn’t that difficult. It is only not that difficult, mind you, because I have already learned how to use Open Office style sheets thanks to LJ Cohen’s brilliant primer on ebook formatting, so I basically comprehend what I

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[kirbyk]

It's not just satisfaction. You've acknowledged that a lot of the time is first-time learning curve, so might as well get that out of the way for a personal project, learn the lessons that are learnable from that, and not make the same mistakes on your more professional work!

[mizkit]

Yeah, it's just retrofitting the lessons to the personal piece isn't...*necessary* except in terms of satisfaction. My family aren't going to notice or object to the two or three very minor details that makes it Not Quite Professional, y'know?

But it's ridiculous how much I enjoy this, actually. In another life... :)

[mizkit]

(I have just gone through and Done It Right. And I am Satisfied. :))

[kirbyk]

I somehow suspected you would. :)

[mikaela_l]

Well, you might not plan to sell them now. But who knows, maybe you plan to sell them next year or something :). ( Unless you are sitting on awesome news.)

[mizkit]

I am not, sadly, sitting on awesome news. I have to wait and see how BYD does with SubPress. If it does well enough and they want to give another one a go, I'll probably split the ORSSP stuff into 2 new collections, and write "Kiss of Angels", the Grace story, as a novella for the anchor piece for one, and write a bunch more short stories to fill out both of them so they've got a lot of new content to go along with the stuff people've read. But that depends on how BYD does. :)

[rfrancis]

I bet I could do it in troff!

Who knows, might matter someday.