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Editoria and Paged.js integrated
First version of integration of paged.js (in-browser pagination) with Editoria…
It means the CSS can be edited in the browser and the book (right pane) is rendered accordingly. It can then exported to PDF…pretty cool…
Coko vid
Editoria Week Coming
In the next days I’ll be in Montreal, both Coko and Book Sprints are presenting at Force11 so will have a heap of fun!
Then next week it is a big Editoria week. We start with a 3 day Book Sprint about Editoria. There will be about 15 of us attending and facilitated by Barbara. On the Thursday is a full day Editoria community event featuring publishers from around the world, Friday we will have some workshops including one on paged.js… and then finally, we will have a Coko Surf Club meet on Saturday 🙂 … then to NZ Sunday night. Busy!
Open Source 4eva
Paul Romer, co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics, uses open source software to share his research.
“The more I learn about proprietary software, the more I worry that objective truth might perish from the earth,”
https://qz.com/1417145/economics-nobel-laureate-paul-romer-is-a-python-programming-convert/
New paged.js logo
From Anton Moglia.
paged.js is the tool we developed for paginating content in browsers to produce print-ready PDF, all styles etc controlled by CSS. Awesome logo.
Shaping
Today I ran into Biarritz to do a fast surfboard-shaping course at The Shaper House.
It was me, a chap Tyler from Florida, and the tutor Severn. We got a good overview in the hour and a half – I am super keen to try and make a board now! … they do workshops over 3 days to make your own board so I will try and get back here to do it…thanks to Anne for setting this up for me 🙂
Shaping a board these days starts with the purchase of a blank…more or less a ‘starter’ shape that can be cut down to the exact dimensions you are after. Once you have the blank you work out the shape you want and how it ‘fits’ into the blank…its kind of like sculpture in that you whittle the source down to what you want.
Once you have drawn out your shape on the blank you cut it down to within a few millimeters with a common saw.
You then sand down the edges to remove the rough sides. You aren’t shaping as such yet, just preparing the blank.
Next you plane down the top and bottom of the board with an electric plane. Essentially making the blank thinner, getting it closer to its final shape.
..and you sand it down some more…now with a coarse sander, but you are more or less smoothing out the rough grooves left by the plane.
Next things start getting interesting… you start making the ‘rails’ (surfie speak for the sides of the board). This is interesting because you are starting from a ‘square’ blank and you are trying to produce beautiful rounded edges…you do this by first marking the side with two lines, these more or less provide guidelines for the shape of the rails…they can be even or hard rails and how you set these lines determines this…
You then sand down the edges at a 45 degree angle. This gives a sort of ‘triangle’ shape to the side with a ‘flat’ top.
After you have this rough cut ‘triangle’ (with a flat top) you mark the sides again with a line and do the same thing…its tricky to explain, but essentially you are getting closer to a curve, except that you are doing it by producing a series of flat surfaces which represent something like the curve you want. When you this you start sanding down the edges into a smooth curve using a number of sanding tricks.
Until you have a bueatiful curved edge… when we made this it felt quite magical and looked fantastic! Simple but the result is awesome.
You then plane down the ‘stringer’ (wooden spine of the board) so that it is nice and flush with the board.
We didn’t go through the rest ourselves but Severn walked us through..how to fibreglass the board, how to set the fins etc… it was pretty interesting.
Highly recommended if you get down this way!
Surfn in South of France
I have a few days between gigs. Due in Montreal mid-week, so hired a car and drove across France from the Book Sprints team event near Marseille to Hendaye on the South West coast (Atlantic). Stopped in at Carcassonne for a night..
now in Hendaye…some surf so far. Nice this time of year, still warm but not so many tourists.
Book Sprints Team Meeting
I’ve been at the first ever Book Sprints full team meet in the south of France for the last 2 days… amazing times… we shared a house in the country, planned, cooked and ate together, and hung out. More photos here https://photos.adamhyde.net/
Paginating Math
paged.jsCheck it out! Paged.js working with MathJax to render math in PDFs.
Below is a screenshot of the first page of the PDF mentioned in the article.
And you can get the PDF here… scientific-math-paper