IT'S HAPPENING!
What paper and font size should I use if I were to, say, format and compile the Short Novel as a PDF suitable for reading or printing?
I might end up putting each part in its own volume depending on how long they get. We'll see, but I can't promise anything soon (at least in the next couple of weeks).
Diphenyl something-or-other, I don't care!
>>744
Not times new roman. There was a study once, sorry I can't link you to it, but they tested eye strain while looking at various fonts and reading them for long periods of time. Fancy stuff caused more strain over time, stuff with feet or fancy curls or whatever was not so good. Use a clean a plain a font as possible.
Might to consider .epub if all you're doing is text?
>>744
https://www.google.com/fonts/#ChoosePlace:select/Collection:Noto+Sans
13 px, Noto Sans. That's trendy. Otherwise, use Topaz.
I just had my first nosebleed in several years! How exciting.
>>747,749
I was going to go with either something that made it look typewritten (or produced by TeX in the late 70s or something) or Mona. Definitely nothing serif.
.epub is a good idea too
>>751
Typewritten? Like Courier or Courier New? Just to clarify, I meant Topaz that was on Amiga, not some modern bullshit.
So, there is that new unnamed pokemon that looks like a new version of Mew. Furries already called it "Mewthree", but I believe that "Mewagain?!" is a better name.
>>751 Mona seems like the obvious choice! Go with that! Good effort for doing this too ganbatte~
http://www.exljbris.com/calluna.html
http://www.exljbris.com/fontin.html
I like these fonts. They "flow" well.
>>756
All the fonts you'll ever need:
On my X I actually only have four typefaces: serif (Times), sans-serif (Helvetica), monospace (Courier), and gothic (Mona). I like the consistency and they map to Web generics quite well. I prefer to read the Web like a book I can customize, rather than a magazine where every page looks different.
>>757
Am I correct to assume that you mean X Window System, not Mac OS X?
I add "Never listen to Linux weirdos" to my most valuable advice ("Never trust midgets") to form a list of the most valuable advices.
> Definitely nothing serif.
I definitely recommend something serif! Sans serif fonts do look great on computer screens, but for small printed text, serifed fonts are the best. At small sizes, the serifs provide hooks for our eyes, making them easy to read. That's why newspapers and most novels use serifed fonts. Quote:
"In his book Cashvertising, Drew Eric Whitman cites a 1986 study of fonts (printed on paper) that found only 12 percent of participants effectively comprehended a paragraph set in sans-serif type versus 67 percent who were given a version set in serif typeface.
Those who read the sans-serif version said they had a tough time reading the text and "continually had to backtrack to regain comprehension."
In a test of three different fonts, two serifs (Garamond and Times New Roman) and one sans serif (Helvetica), he found 66 percent were able to comprehend Garamond; 31.5 percent Times New Roman, and 12.5 percent Helvetica (out of a total of 1,010,000 people surveyed). (source: http://www.awaionline.com/2011/10/the-best-fonts-to-use-in-print-online-and-email/)"
That's just one source, but if you do a little research you will find that printers agree: serif is the most readable for print. Of course, there is a lot of JSIS art in the DQN short novel, so I would suggest using Mona for those sections and a serifed font like Garamond for the rest.
Also watch out for column widths. A common mistake is having columns too wide to be readable. You generally only want seven to eleven words per line (source: http://www.bergsland.org/2012/05/typography/column-width-the-key-to-comfortable-reading/) If you're planning on printing on A4 paper, you might consider printing two columns per page (landscape) to make it fit nicely.
Good luck! Book printing is complicated! What looks good as a PDF e-book won't look as good in print, and vice versa, so you either have to make some compromises or make two different versions.
I'd totally buy a DQN short novel anthology (Threads 1-3).
>>759 I think worrying about comprehension is a bit pointless, have you read any of the short novel threads?
>>762
I think having nonsense in a format that looks professional and readable adds to the project's beautiful irony. Plus, there are sections of the novel that are actually quite readable!
However, I reluctantly agree that if >>751 doesn't want to bother going through and tagging all the JSIS with a different font, Mona is probably the way to go.
>>762
Indeed, those novels aren't something you read yourself, but something that you give your friends to read. Good font and typesetting are very important.
AMS Euler is a stupid font. You might as well typeset equations in Comic Sans.
Obama is evil. He wants to turn the country into a police state and turn the police states into FEMA camps and turn the FEMA camps into baby dogs!
What is this shit
>>759
Thanks for the input. I'm realising more and more how little I know about typefaces and books and shit like that.
>>763
Mona-ifying posts wouldn't be too much trouble (I plan to start off writing a couple of scripts to automate the initial scrapes in the first place), I just thought whole books in Mona would be an amuement befitting of DQN.
tfw when all your organs shut down.
>>768
On a whim, I tried putting the first line of your post through one of those Engrish things. The result was something beautiful.
http://translationparty.com/tp/#10832271
>>768,770
I tried the second line and it was somewhat ridiculous:
http://translationparty.com/tp/#10832286
>>770
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you very much. Shit face book is a bit way to provide it.
I feel like Shitfacebook would be a good drinking website.
I sort of want to do this http://4-ch.net/dqn/kareha.pl/1202850490/286
I'm not sure how it would work, though
>>773
I like the way everyone's been using the thread proposal thread to get approval before making threads, I think we should use that as a guide on how to make all future threads. We should get approval before making threads from now onward.
Oh, my poor anus...
>>774
It wasn't to get approval, it's just that I'm not sure how to do it
>>775
We are an Elitist Superstructure, we need some form of bureaucracy to keep things both elite and structural, otherwise we'd be the commonplace disorganized trash heap, and that already exists everywhere else.
>>778
No, we don't. We are an Elitist Superstructure and we have to look down on the common rabble, not on each other. Members of the Superstructure shall be considered equally elitist.
I put this to a vote.
>>778
Are you saying that DQN isn't a disorganized trash heap?
>>780
Of course. It's the elitest structure, and a super one at that.
What have I done?
Are there any free online history?
>>785
Yes.
Here's a series I liked, starting with www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FrHGAd_yto
about ancient Greece. It's a series of recorded lectures at Yale. Lots of other courses, probably with more history thrown in, at http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses
You can also check out history podcasts. I can't seem to post the links without triggering the spam filter (thanks 4-ch!) but here are some I've enjoyed that you can google if you want:
The History of Rome podcast
12 Byzantine Rulers
History of the Ancient World (covers mostly the ancient Near East from pre-history to the 6th-5th century BC)
Hardcore History
The first three are obviously ancient history podcasts, done by both amateur and professional historians. The last one is more of a mix. They're all great, though. You can tell I really like ancient history, but there's enough free material out there covering every subject you can imagine.
>>784
I don't know about history but a few colleges, I think MIT and Harvard, have lectures posted online from a number of classes.
>>789
Hardcore History has a great five-part series that just ended about the Mongols. Not comprehensive, but it's very in-depth and runs up to the completion of most of the conquests, stopping before the establishment of Kublai Khan's China etc. You can find all five parts for free here:
I see Priest Oduma has been doing a lot of spell casting lately.
>>790
I'll start that after finish the ancient world one. I was kind of looking for something that went on a little more and also covered the period after the collapse of the empire. Stuff on smaller offshoots of the empire like Astrakhan and Nogai.
This sickness never truly goes away, does it?
>>792 If you find one, be sure to post it in here. I'd be interested too.
former_neet, ticksu, dekisu, nabia_vip, etc., pls go
I wish my hair started graying early instead of falling out :(
Delete the full stop? You could have removed the space before "ITT", or added a space there while removing the spaces between the tags at the end.
Shame on you, >>1.
I wish he posted photos of his robot.
Look at all this learning!
America's national sport? Outdoor military games.
This is not the first time that I have dreamed about crossdressing.
I guess I probably didn't screw that presentation up any more than anyone else maybe!
>>803
What was it about?
A friend of mine was reading a lecture on functional programming at his university a few weeks ago. He sneaked this picture into one of the slides: http://www.fybertech.com/4get/13320212582846.png
But he says that people liked it anyway.
I can't remember how much vodka I've had tonight.
>>784
The Western Tradition is pretty good, and lecturer Eugen Weber likes to make a lot of interesting asides. Maybe not super thorough, but it got me through a CLEP a couple years ago.
ttp://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html
>>679 here
it's been one week and about ten minutes
I think my experiment was a success.
>>807, were you lying down like a log and thinking about death?
Because that's what I'd do if the internet suddenly ceased to exist. I'd just lie down and wait for death.
I'm going to explode I've had it
>>804
It was for one of a limited number of funded PhD places. The presentation went OK, but the fully-technical trick questions afterwards were hideous. I'll know what the rest of my life looks like on Monday.
Foolish girl, why do you try to resist?
>>808
No, I was actually very busy!
I started this because I observed that I waste much of my meager free time on activities which profit me nothing.
My goal was to see if I was addicted to frivolous internet activities (FIA) or if I could actually quit whenever I want. The term FIA includes all activities involving the use of a PC or other internet capable device which have no value other than that of entertainment or pleasure. Note that under this definition, not all activities on the internet are FIA, and not all FIA necessarily involve internet access. For example, I can watch anime without accessing the internet, but it is still an FIA.
My procedure was to write a list of productive activities that I could perform and refer to that list whenever I feel the urge to visit a BBS, watch porn and/or anime, or perform other miscellaneous FIA. The idea was that I could immerse myself in a productive activity, thereby distracting myself from momentary FIA urges.
I followed the procedure with moderate success, eliminating an estimated 95% of FIA from my weekly activities (my resolve flagged a little near the end). As a result, I slept more, accomplished more during free time, and performed better in my classes and job. I also was able to roughly determine the extent of my own self-control.
From these results, I have concluded that I must try to incorporate this procedure into my daily life, but in shorter time increments. For example, I might have "No Internet For An Hour" Hour, then reward myself with a predetermined amount and form of FIA. I hope it will work out.
>>815
Just FYI, FIA stands for Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, which you, in the US, would call Automobile Competition Committee for the United States. It governs various motorsport events like Formula 1 (IndyCar) or WRC (NASCAR).
Please use "miscellaneous internet activities" instead of your term.
Well, they really ought to be afraid, all things considered.
I just fucking learned something!
There's a Magnemite on my Pokewalker.
His name is Polarity and I love him.
>>821
You should totally get yourself an eevee. Eevees are cute and fluffy.
I'm sad today.
The AVGN doesn't chug beer any more when he gets mad at a game. When did that happen? Was there some serious deliberation like James Rolfe didn't want to glorify binge drinking or something, or did it just kind of fade out of the picture?
>>824 Maybe he got liver or kidney disease, and he was told he would die if he kept drinking so much alcohol.
If I am going to commit an act of genocide, I'll have to do it later.
Sorry, but it seems that dreaming of pictures is the best I can do.
>>825 well, what did he drink? Maybe one beer per video? That isn't really anything at all, even if you drink it all in ten seconds. I was always under the impression that he was sponsored by Yuengling or Rolling Rock.
Who cares anyway, since he kind of sucks - same "I'm so mad at this game" shtick every video. Better than some Youtube game idiots, for sure, but it still gets old pretty quick.
I felt her image inflate to fill the entire inside of my skull, painting my mind like a canvas - as I painted her, so long ago. I'm scared.
THERE IS NO DISC THREE YOU ASSHOLE
How come my nose can excrete more mucus than my penis? It isn't fun! The evolution is stupid! Your god is stupid if you don't believe in evolution!
We both know how this is going to end. Prepare your fingers.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I wish i had slept instead of pokemoning then i could have gotten all that work done and had a chance to sleep
>>836
Then you would regret both not doing your work and not pokemoning.
Have some faith, you!
I kind of want to make a DQN Synchronet BBS that also crawls USENET, specifically comp.os.plan9 and higher. I could mount games on it like syn does. But I still have to figure out how to configure it yet.
Can a plant be cute?
When the DQN Short Novel Audiobook does come out I'm buying 80 copies and giving them away for christmass presents. Sadly I will be the only recipient since I am always alone for christmass.
