Newsies & Bootblacks Update
So I have solved all most of the issues I wrote you about last week. Links show in blue, now; and not in an awful reddish pink that for some reason, somebody thought it should be the standard for LaTeX. It is not so hard, once you know how to do it. They tricky part about LaTeX and LyX is to find precisely the information you need. Text seems alright now. I have even included drop caps at the first paragraph of every chapter. Not that it was truly necessary, but it just looks smart. In LyX you need to download a module called lettrine. You do that through MikTeX, which is a separate...
Read MoreNewsies & Bootblacks final draft is finished
This is how you spend your weekend if you are publishing a role-playing game on your own: correcting typos —and yet knowing it won’t be 100% perfect. And then you wake on Monday at 5:00 AM so you can tell the world you still have work to do. But it is great to have the game finished and complete; or at least the first edition of it. I still need to fix a few issues and add a couple of features, which I hope to have solved soon. Yeah, I say soon, I have learned the hard way that on your first attempt to publish anything you should not promise any deadlines. Basically because you...
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