Trajecient

Trajecient, 5 days ago

@KarenKasparArt I see leaves floating in water in which I also see a reflection of the sky and trees.

So I guess a see a mix of both.

Trajecient, 22 days ago

@therobburgessshow "First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South"...

That really does speak for itself.

Trajecient, 29 days ago

@nonfedimemes Don't they realise that this Anglish is still using the Latin alphabet?

Trajecient, 1 month ago

@wendypalmer @negative12dollarbill Out of curiosity, I checked JSTOR and they have a policy to support name changes (due to transitioning or any other reason). This is likely similar across academia.

...but there's a catch. This only works smoothly so long as the actual publisher agrees and for work hosted there but not directly published by platforms like Sage or JSTOR, there isn't a guarantee all of them (i.e. certain entities with religious affiliations) would all be on the same page.

Trajecient, 1 month ago

@wendypalmer @negative12dollarbill It is and part of the policy is to suppress the former name when requested which is associated with transitions.

...that looks to be a more recent development that is designed with the need to avoid deadnaming in mind.

Trajecient, 1 month ago

@luciedigitalni At least The Guardian did manage to note he is a former Greens staffer, so whilst the full context isn't reported, at least there's something to suggest he isn't a disinterested commentator.

Doesn't excuse the sloppiness but at least it is something.

Wills is a seat where the Greens have already been very well positioned to make a potential gain even before the circumstances noted by this article, so Sam has a strong chance of having this move pay off for her.

Trajecient, 1 month ago

@LianaBrooks Or to go all in, there is an absence of any antidote for alliteration addiction.

Trajecient, 1 month ago

@jessekelber Ghost is the best option as far as I know, but both Gumroad and Patreon can also be readily adapted for this.

Here's a site that goes into doing a newsletter on Gumroad: https://www.byburk.net/create-a-newsletter-blog-using-gumroad/

Trajecient, 1 month ago

@therobburgessshow More broadly I would expect them to disregard the idea of term limits, probably with a fig leaf of an originalist argument from the pseudointellectual wing and the more hardcore MAGA crowd pointing to FDR and saying a 'war on woke' is justification enough.

More specifically, if they truly believe the Big Lie this isn't an issue as they would believe Trump is the rightful President but was denied office, so he isn't running for a third consecutive term.

Trajecient, 1 month ago

@golgaloth Then you might be interested in something I'm closing in on getting ready.

Basically it is something that stops text scraping without readers needing to do anything work (only the writer/publisher has to set it up) and it has been successfully tested to work with the NVDA screenreader.

I had been wondering for months why such a thing hadn't been made as I could see how it could be done, so in the end I've just been making it myself.

Trajecient, 2 months ago

@sfwrtr BTW, for anyone with Windows 11, Winaero Tweaker will let you override Microsoft and disable the use of Copilot by the operating system.

For any WIndows 10 or Windows 11 user, it is also highly recommended as it lets you disable Microsoft's intrusive data collection if desired, amongst the other options for greater customisation and control of OS features, all for free.

Trajecient, 3 months ago

@lowqualityfacts This may have more truth to it than you know.

. In the scripts, if I recall correctly, it is officially annoyed grunt although that may have changed or been apocryphal.

Trajecient, 3 months ago

@Bender If you're looking for other options, there's also a commission section on the Artisan's Cooperative Discord. There are quite a number of fibre artists there.

Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HexanyIves

As someone who has gone down this road, besides resources the tools are important. Fonts are usually created with font creator programs, which vary in terms of how 'professional' they are and how they work. Some are free. Some aren't.

Personally, I only needed five things to be able to create something really good without specific training:

*The free Unicode Resources
*A font editor

• Desktop publishing software (optional)
• An idea
  *Time

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Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HexanyIves

If you want to support for foreign languages/loanwords or add in symbols to be combined with text (very useful for visual novels, websites, etc.) then the Unicode Code Charts are basically a recipe book for what you can include, what it roughly looks like and where it goes to work in a font.

The Unicode Proposal Documents include great info on historical punctuation and letters if historical styles are of interest.

So is MUFI (the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative).

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Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HexanyIves

There are different ways to go about drawing the characters. Some create them in real life and scan them. Others create in font editors or other preferred software.

The choice of font editor partly depends on how polished you want the results to be. Bad vs good spacing between characters (kerning) can make such a big difference to whether a font looks 'right' or 'broken'.

Font editors that do a lot of the kerning work for you can be a life-saver.

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Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HexanyIves
Don't fuss too much about getting the spacing perfect, though. It is very common during typesetting for writers/publishers and so forth to manually adjust spacing of a typeface by doing stuff like adding in extra very small spaces between letters.

Still, the better the spacing is to begin with (even for a personal typeface) the easier and more fun it will be to use.

...but you don't need to do the kerning all at once. You can start using a font and adjust later as needed.

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Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HexanyIves
Personally, I've found it super simple to create using the affordable Affinity software, using lines to make sure things line up and then importing into a font editor that does a lot of the kerning.

This way I can also create right next to references.

Most letters/numbers make use of one or more of the same basic strokes: the straight line, the curved line and the circle.

A method of getting a font with a consistent look is to reuse these strokes and modify as needed.

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Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HexanyIves
Search for 'type design glossary' and you will find a lot of useful intro resources.

Going further, there's a whole list of resources here: https://typography.guru/directory/website/

Creating different weights is much easier if you have desktop publishing software with an 'Expand Stroke' feature.

Doing this with font editor features doesn't always work, particularly if you imported a file instead of drawing within the font editor.

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Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HexanyIves Thanks for the follow, btw.

I don't have personal experience with it but the only FOSS desktop publisher I am aware of (as opposed to illustration or word processor programs) is Scribus.

It is comparatively lacking in features and less user-friendly but could still meet your needs. It definitely works on Linux, whereas the Affinity Suite is not officially on Linux and it can be hard to get it working there.

I have used FontForge in the past, but never to create a font...

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Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HexanyIves

The user interface leaves much to be desired and this is part of why it has such a steep learning curve.

Personally, I found it way too confusing for me, but if you can wrap your head around it there is a lot it can do.

Casual font designers have generally stopped using it though in favour of the FOSS alternative Glyphr Studio or something like it.

More professional font designers have tended to pay for a commercial choice with deeper features.

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Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HumanServitor Well, yeah, sans serif fonts are notorious for often not differentiating between the lowercase 'l' and the capital I and sometimes even the number 1.

It is also that in the past the context was enough to avoid confusion but nowadays there isn't a clear separation between when AI referring to artificial intelligence and Al referring to the name are used.

Trajecient, 3 months ago

@HumanServitor @aby At least in terms of the potential for straight and non-straight as terms to become more dated in the future, if not necessarily now.

Obviously not everyone who is LGBTQIA+ would have a problem with such terms, as is the case for terms in general.

Trajecient, 3 months ago

@aby @HumanServitor That's a useful perspective to add.

Obviously there are differences in the LGBTQIA+ community . One perspective among others sees non-heterosexual in the OP's context as equivalent to I'm not heterosexual, I'm bisexual' if someone misinterpreted one's sexuality.

Aby's response does highlight there are better alternatives.

In academic works there are phrases that point to back to use of LGBTQIA+ but avoid undue repetition editors do remove.

Perhaps look there.