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Computer printing history question: Why is imposition such a pain? At what level is “a page” so different from “this graphic” that imposition is still handled by different software than the rest of page layout?

Historical quirks and links to explanations, vague memories of subtle bugs, all welcome.

#printing #layout #typesetting (not using imposition as a hashtag because it's a lively one with a different meaning)

Today is #DocumentFreedomDay!

The first rule of Document #Freedom Day is that we talk about open #document formats and tools that allow documents to be accessed, edited and shared by anyone, without restrictions or reliance on specific software or vendor lock-in.

I wrote the post below to talk about the #free and #open formats and #opensource tools that I am using for the #writing #typesetting and #layout of Return of the Ripper.

kickstarter.com/projects/micha

Random thought:

I wonder if the trend in having a vertical tab bar in browsers will also have an impact in how we design websites.

In particular I am thinking about centered content, e.g. the timeline here on Mastodon. With a vertical tabs sidebar open that content is not really visually centered anymore.

Maybe I am just overthinking and this is not a real issue at all? 🤔

I used the "gallery" option in Wordpress (Classic Editor) a lot.

But what it looks like in the pseudo-HTML source that Wordpress uses is this:

[gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="7910,7911,7912,7913,7920,7921,7922,7924"]

Which conversion/archiving tools don't know what to do with.

I assume Wordpress must generate the gallery HTML everytime the page is loaded? (I'm pretty sure the numbers are document numbers for the images, which also contain size and captions).

I've been manually converting them to HTML tables, which will work in exported Markdown (albeit just as quoted HTML -- because apparently Markdown doesn't support image tables or galleries).

Also, I have to open each image and then copy and paste the filename into the "Add Media" search bar in order to add the images to my article so I can put table tags around them.

Is there a better way to do this?

Maybe a way to explode the galleries into individual images, at least?

Also, do any of the static CMS/blog generators handle images and galleries better than this?

All the ones I know seem to view images as an afterthought, and galleries, let alone artistic layouts not even a tiny bit. Not everything of value is words, folks.

I'm thinking of migrating to something else -- but what?
#Wordpress #CMS #Blog #Layout #Images