To self publishers, please consider your readers when formatting. There should be white space on the page, not a wall of densely packed text with nowhere for the eye to start or pause. Also non self publishers of course.
I read samples before buying. Yesterday, did not buy an otherwise promising book for this reason.
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I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.
Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:
Trying to finish a short story for submission. Why is that para in a different tense? Why is there a mix of straight and curly quotes? Why even is formatting? Surely this is something ai could do? Sorry I mentioned it. #formatting
I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? Just $85, changes included. Try it now:
I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.
Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:
Decorative Text Within HTML, by @Edent:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/05/decorative-text-within-html/
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I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.
Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:
WHY TIL: If you are using a language server capable of autoformatting, formatting your whole file in Neovim is as easy as calling vim.lsp.buf.format().
And since LSP formatters use edit commands instead of replacing your whole file, Neovim can keep track of the cursor position, marks, and all kinds of other stuff that wasn't possible with just `:%!formatter`.
I've replaced my custom tiny autoformatting plugin with this and I don't regret it.
https://codeberg.org/scy/dotfiles/commit/e195eb85e5b7a0a94d61f91b1e47107f117af748
codeberg.orgMaking sure you're not a bot!
How do we feel about typesetting non-spoken, non-thought dialog or text, like a letter or email or SMS exchange? #formatting #publishing #layout
I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.
Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:
I've just finished reading this blog post regarding the markdown Syntax by RL Dane
He is also given a brief history of the Computing Hardware and software that he has used ever since he was a little Padawan.
The blog post is just a few minutes to read and you shall learn something good from it.
TLDR is; use {smackdown} markdown for everything you write that needs formatting and be truly platform independent in your formatted text creation.
When you truly understand what he means, it is literal total freedom with formatted text and you don't even need to learn tex or LaTeX, since you will not be writing a book.
When you do that you will have to read my posts regarding tex and LaTeX, and those are blog posts I haven't released.
For me markdown has been important, ever since I was working on waffle bulletin boards many many decades ago
*Bold* _underline_ /italic/ was the syntax that we used back then.
Our waffle bulletin board had a special text formatting routine which Made these codes look like they were actually bold underline and italic when we were viewing those emails.
On the #AmIRC channel on Dalnet we also had a formatting routines for our clients, mine was AmIRC that converted these codes in a similar fashion.
So in true Essence markdown has been with us for a very very long time; we just didn't call it markdown then but we made sure that our text formatting had nothing to do with the computer platform we happen to be typing on.
https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html
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Do be so kind to explain to me like I'm five, what you've written here in the code block
Do you use a special client to get the markdown language or do you know it by heart?
an email from my medical provider had a weird formatting glitch I've never seen before. (an 'email'/message in their online portal so technically a web page)
The words 'medications you' are smashed together such that the s of medications and the y of you are superimposed on each other, but if I select/copy/paste it's correct
'medications you'
I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.
Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:
I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.
Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:
I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.
Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:
I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.
Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:
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Contact: hiisikoloart@gmail.com
Alternatively you can drop me a ko-fi brain cell and help me make my debt payments. (:
I have enabled markdown but don't worry; I would never
- use
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such as they are
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evil
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