William Overington

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

Excellent. Thank you for posting. William

Thank you. I first read of fifty word science fiction stories somewhere some years ago, but until today I had not tried writing any myself. William

Thank you. The text is 30 point with the Paragraph Leading [sic] at 33 point. I used to handset metal type and the leading was actually pieces of lead a few points thick. We used to use 2 point leading. I think of the leading in the above piece of text as being 3 point. When I saw 30 point in the Paragraph Leading box I took it as being the point size of the type William

Could you possibly post a PDF (Portable Document Format) document version please? I am not sure that the fonts have come out correctly here when I tried to look at the .afpub file. William

I wrote the first story this morning. I wrote the second story some time after publishing the first story. Something that I would have liked to do but could not find out how to do it is line spacing, that is the leading. For example in the first two lines the p in 'starship' and the h in 'the' seem too close to each other. The help facility says it is under Paragraph panel but I cannot find it. William

I had the idea for the story and I decided to try to produce it in Affinity Publisher, writing the story directly into the text frame. Yet I could not find how to do a word count in Affinity Publisher, so I used the word count facility in PagePlus X7. Is there a word count facility in Affinity Publisher please? I added some text so that the story became exactly fifty words in length. I used an A5 landscape format and used Goudita SF as the font. I initially typeset in 24 point but found that 30 point filled the area better, though I did need to lower the lower margin a little. I then moved the whole text frame up a bit. William