William Overington

The story in the previous post contains a puzzle. Yet the seemingly magic trick can be done without any magic at all. Can you work out he could do it,? William

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Thank you. In mine, actually the whole paragraph was justified, from the original, and the word 'being' went onto the next line at one stage, but after that it seemed to do it only on the highlighted line, notwithstanding that there was no line break between the two lines. With poetry the layout is often different right from the start and I too use line breaks for poems. William

Oh, I had replied some hours ago, it looks like I did not click send. The text appears to have been lost, but it was something like the following. Thank you. I did not know about it before. I have had a go at this and, probably because of me being new to it, it seemed somewhat hit and miss. I started with a copy of the original .afpub file so that I still have the original. I tried the technique and at one time the word 'being' went to the next line! However, I got the following so I decided to export a png graphic file and post it into the thread. Is it the case that the width of each of the glyphs is not altered but that what happens is that some of each of the five spaces between the words is distributed into the twenty-six gaps between the letters within the words? Thank you again. William

Hi I know nothing at all about the facilities being discussed so I do not comment on them. However, I am still, happily, using a "free with dial-up internet" webspace started in late 1997. Alas, the supplier is not accepting new customers for the webspace facility, it is just a legacy matter from a company they took over which had along the way taken over the company which originally offered the webspace. The "dial-up" facility was closed about five years ago, but I have been allowed to keep the webspace. In fact, broadband has been used from around 2004, but also kept the dial-up going, even though not actually using the dial-up itself, just to keep the website (though there is a webmail with it too, though largely unused now, just for sending myself emails with an attachment as a extra back-up facility). So why am I mentioning this here? The reason is that I have produced the webspace entirely using raw HTML (hypertext markup language) and I am pleased with what I have got. The webspace loads quickly, carries no advertisements for anything else not under my control, and it is "all my own work". Not flashy, animated can-cause-some-people-issues flashing things, no stuff designed to impress management in a quick demo yet quickly become a nuisance for anyone else viewing the site in its regular operation. So the service provider is doing just that, providing a service of a clean, accessible webspace hosted on their server, the rest is up to me, subject only to legal obligations over content that apply to everybody, however they produce a webspace with whatever provider, must adhere. My webspace has always been, and always well be, entirely suitable for family viewing, so no problem there. So, if you can find a provider that can provide you with that basic, quality service for a fee then I suggest, if I may, that you consider using basic HTML. The following page gives the nearest page to the sort of thing that you might like to do, as regards layout. I am not one for knocking my own stuff but the graphics are just bits of pieces of my own hobbyist work, the link is not included here to showcase my graphics as such, I am just trying to give an idea of what could be done using raw HTML to showcase a portfolio. Near the top of the page are links to PDF (portable document format) documents, some of which contain graphics, further down the page are some graphics displayed as images upon the page as well. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/library.htm Here is a link to a set of linked pages from some years ago that shows some photographs in a sort-of-interactive setting. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/cloc1909.htm The link to the home page of the webspace is as follows. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/ These days, I produce the HTML pages using WordPad and saving as a text file, not using any fancy rich text format at all. I then upload using an ftp (file transfer protocol) link, item by item, from Windows 10. The website is safe to use. It is on a server run by PlusNet PLC, a subsidiary of BT. The following thread may be helpful. It certainly helped me enormously. https://community.serif.com/discussion/106030/using-ftp-on-windows-10 William

I have just noticed a question about this that was posted in the High-Logic forum recently. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8171 It is about the artboard. However, @janndk mentions Affinity Designer, and I do not have that program, so it might be that it cannot be done using Affinity Publisher. Could someone possibly explain please? There is also a related thread. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8172 William

Thank you for posting. I have watched the first two minutes of it so far. I know it says Speedart. However. I liked the initial picture showing what you have produced, but the other was just far too fast, in my opinion, for me to learn from it. Also, in common with many other videos from other people, the writing is far too small.I realize that it would make the video longer but for me I would rather have a, say, one hour video, of a live recording of you doing it, at a slow pace such that someone who is new to using the software can follow what you are doing. Too many videos from many people show a click on the menu bar, a drop down menu and something chosen and moved on before I get a chance to take in what is being done. For me, if instead of a musical background you were providing a running commentary, speaking, slowly, as to what you are going to do just before you do it then that would be good. For example, "I am now going to choose NAME1 from the menu bar." then do it, pause for the viewer to take it in, then "Now, I need to select NAME2 from the drop down menu", then do it, and so on. Maybe it needs a series of videos, such as, say four videos, namely overview, drawing the tent, drawing the trees, putting it all together. Quite what can be done about the tiny lettering is a difficult problem. If you have video editing software, could you overlay an enlarged version of the current drop down menu in the lower left corner of the final video. As it happens, I use Affinity Publisher and I find the white on black menu and so, for me, awful frankly. So I always use the option of the light background with the black lettering. I accept that is a matter of choice which choice any user makes, it is good that Serif allows us that choice. As it happens I learned some very basic isometric drawing using a program called AutoCAD, and so the complexity of the result that you produced impressed me. William

Over 26 hours and 110 views since my previous post. Stuck for inspiration? If so, how about having a go at creative writing by continuing from one of the following? ---- She gazed up at the gibbous moon in the sky and wondered if She had always struggled learning languages, but putting the bracelet on her wrist she found she could suddenly speak and understand Portuguese. Now she Now that petrol for cars has been banned, he looked at the classic car in his garage and ---- No need to post if you don't want to, but this is not a competition, and all posts are welcome. William

Each of the stories that I have published in this thread were prepared using an A5 landscape page, starting with the Frame Text panel the same size as the margins that appear by default. I export as a png file making the height 512 pixels, which makes the width become 726 pixels. William

The font used in the passive starship story is Aldine 401 BT, which is like Bembo. The font is at 30 point. There is no leading between the lines (that is, in Affinity Publisher parlance, Paragraph Leading is the same as font size). William

Thank you. From the story. If the narrator of the story dreams, does the "someone else" experience that dream? Regarding tracking. I did not know the term in relation to typography, but I have now found the following. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter-spacing I had known of letter spacing from handsetting metal type, though not as a numerical quantity and not of negative letter spacing. I had met letter spacing in the context of spacing between capitals in a title. I found that tracking is available in Affinity Publisher. I was having problems finding it until I found that I could pull the character panel onto the page, thereby making it easier to use, though now I have found it and tried it I can use it from the character panel's storage position. Could you say why you chose use negative tracking please? Any particular reason for that typeface? William

You, and everyone, are most welcome to post. Also, without prejudice to the generality of the previous sentence, you did provide an answer to my question about the font. Thank you. Alas! William

So now a haiku A science fiction theme too And most welcome too

Thank you all. I have found the following. http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/products/type/pdfs/WarnockPro.pdf It appears that the font has some ornaments are available. So shall we have a rule for this thread that someone may use ornaments around the text without that use counting toward the fifty words William

Thank you for replying. The font is nice and clear, a good choice. William

Regarding the story of the troll. 1. Suppose that the narrator is telling the truth. Then the friend is lying. The friend says that the narrator is telling the truth, therefore the narrator would be lying. Oops! 2. Suppose that the narrator is lying. Then the friend is telling the truth. The friend says that the narrator is telling the truth, therefore the narrator would be telling the truth. Ooops! Years ago I put a series of three electronic NOT gates in series and fed back the result to the beginning. No input value, it just ran. The circuitry did not explode, but as there is a small propagation delay in electronic circuitry, then the output viewed on an oscilloscope was a very high frequency square wave. I di not think at the time but if I had made the length of wire for the feedback loop longer I might have been able to slow down the frequency of the oscillations a little. William

Thank you. What is the font that you used please? William

Thank you. I enlarged the PDF document bit by bit to 800% in Adobe Reader to find out what is going on. The text has black outline and a blue fill. Is that deliberate? If so, what is your reason for doing that please? I notice that you use Arial Bold, rather than using the regular Arial, all through the document. Is there some reason for that please? William

In case anyone is wondering, the solid in the story in the previous post is an extruded regular nonagon extruded just enough such that the area of each of the two end facets (each a regular nonagon) has the same area as each of the nine rectangular facets produced by the extrusion process. For a very long extrusion the end facets would each have a smaller area than each of the side facets. For a very small extrusion the end facets would each have a larger area than each of the side facets. At some particular extrusion the end facets would each have the same area as each of the side facets. William