William Overington

Why?

Thank you for replying.
The idea is that it is a table that is readable by humans as well as by an automated system.
If someone who is bilingual localizes the file to another language, keeping the numbers to the left of the | characters unchanged yet translating the text that is to the right of the | characters, then the file could be used in an automated system, such as, for example, a smartphone being held by a visitor to an art gallery who is wondering what is the meaning of the language-independent sign, and the meaning would be displayed upon the screen of the smartphone.
So if the sentence.dat file is localized to another language, that localization takes place once, yet the sentence.dat file that is produced can be used an unlimited number of times by lots of people.
I saw in Google streetview a view in the foyer of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, (as the foyer was before the foyer was rebuilt) and there was a sign that had in English and about six other languages the message Thank you for visiting. The sign was between the stairs and the exit, so visitors would see it on the way out.
Yet there are many more than seven languages in the world.
So my idea is that a language-independent sign would be equal for all, and people might know the meaning of the symbol each in their own language, or could find the meaning in their own language by using an app on a device. Yet the app would work with any language that can be expressed in Unicode because the app would work with the sentence.dat file to which it has access. So no need for a separate version of the app for each language, just a version of the sentence.dat file for each supported language
William
 

If an Affinity app implemented "decoding of localizable sentence codes" how would you envision that function being used?

I saw your post after this one describing the contents, which would have been my obvious question. The thing is, what are we supposed to do with this dat file? It's basically a key pair table.

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Affinity Animate (Default)
Affinity Motion
Affinity Move
Affinity Film
Affinity Filmer
Affinity Movie
Affinity Flix ( a take on the word "flicks" as in "movie flicks")

When exporting our to PDF Publisher does insert the double quotes for the Tags section when viewed in a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat under the Keyword heading. I can't provide a reason for this at the moment but I'm trying to confirm. You can use commas in the Tags field to separate them, this applies to Acrobat Reader as well if you wanted to add more after.
The Fields panel can be resized by placing your cursor on the edge/corner. The input fields on the panel can't be resized to display more space.

I produced the artwork in Affinity Designer.
I produced two A4 PDF documents landscape formar, one monochrome with black lines and text and white fill of the shapes, one in colour.
The posted image is a one-fifth linear scale png graphic produced for this thread.
I started by going to the Affinity Designer "quickshapes" but found there was no "thinks bubble".
I constructed the picture using the Cloud Tool and the Ellipse Tool.  I adjusted the size of the ellipses so that they are circles of a chosen size. I like using the approach of setting numbers in the Transform pnel, I use the Transform panel a lot for various projects.
Likewise, I tend to select colours using numbers rather than selecting a colour from an area of graded colours.
The font is EB Garamond, from Google fonts. It is the same font as I used for the code numbers in the images in the signs for art galleries thread.
William
 
 
 

Please tell us more about the project, William, and about the posted image in particular. Although it could have been produced in Affinity Designer or Publisher, the thought bubble looks more like a ‘QuickThought’ parametric shape from DrawPlus or PagePlus. I can see that the typeface is Garamond or one of its close relatives.

Hi William,
Wow! I've been to the link to investigate. I read the piece (ch21) on the second link you sent (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_021.pdf) and the poem, which flowed beautifully, and I have read the author's note. It was really very interesting, but so surreal. I'm not sure I understand from reading that little snippet what it's about so I will have another look later... I love that you are enjoying writing it and designing the graphics. Writing, art and design should be enjoyable. 
I think you are living in another dimension. It is such an original idea. 🙂 It will take me a while to understand it, I think...
 

Well I am not very good at illustrations. I like to think that I am quite good at writing but when it comes to illustrations I can do designs that can be constructed mathematically or almost mathematically but something like the image that you have produced is way beyond my abilities
William
 
 

My first novel is available to read on the web. Free-to-read, no registration required or requested.
Here is the link to the version that includes the author notes.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm
I produced the novel using the Serif PagePlus desktop publishing program.
The novel is quite a lot to read.
If you want to have a look at one chapter, you might like this one.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_021.pdf
William
 

Actually, the birds going one way and the deer the other, for me, capture in the image the panic. Unlike people in a workplace they will not have been taught what to do in a fire situation nor will they have participated in a fire drill and been informed of the gathering point after evacuation and there will not be signs on the trees indicating which way to go in the event of a fire. And although when staff in a human workpace all behave in an orderly manner in a previously announced fire drill, who knows what will happen if there is a real fire.
The animals may not know which is the route to safety. They may not be aware that there is anywhere outside the wood, or they may have previously stood at the edge of the wood gazing at the open meadow beyond yet never ventured there.
William
 
 

It is quite an interesting story of how I came to see that painting. I had not known of the painting before I saw it.
I had seen in The National Gallery in London the painting The Rout of San Romano by Paolo Uccello and I was impressed by it.
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/uccellos-rout-san-romano
Most of the above is behind a pay wall (I have not viewed it) but the free to read part has interesting information so i have included the link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_San_Romano
I had subsequently bought a book about Renaissance Art and I had read that that painting was one of a set of three (the others in the Louvre in Paris and in the Uffizi in Florence) and that there was another painting by Paolo Uccello in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
I had not known of that museum before reading that, but I found out about it and I drove to Oxford one Saturday afternoon to try to see the painting. It was on display in a large room on the first floor (UK parlance, that is one floor up from the entry level of the building) and in the same room Fire in the Forest was also on display.
As a side note, while in Oxford on that Saturday afternoon I saw the Museum of the History of Science, but it was shut as it only opened for periods on weekdays.
So some time later, when I had a week of holiday, I drove to Oxford on a weekday and I visited the Museum of the History of Science.
There I saw a display of astrolabes and that is how I became interested in astrolabes.
https://hsm.ox.ac.uk/
I visited the museum several times over the next few years. There was no booking then, no tickets, an open door and very often nobody other than one or two staff in view.
William
 
 

Have you seen the POPtravel videos of Venice?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=POPtravel+Venice
For example, this one, viewing it on full screen view is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrvaZusWypI
POPtravel videos tend to be continuous, no sudden jumps of viewpoint.
POPtravel videos are not only of Venice, there are lots of them.
https://www.youtube.com/c/poptravelorg
William
 

I love Renaissance art and adore Italy, especially Venice (my favourite place) and Florence. I am fascinated by the Medici and the Borgias, Savonarola and the 'Bonfire of the Vanities' (not the To Wolfe book) and especially the Byzantine empire and the siege in 1543 of Constantinople by the Ottomans.
Indeed, some of my Affinity Photo brushes that I created to use in my artwork - the silver and gold brushes, pearl brushes, jewel brushes like ruby, emerald, diamond, sapphire, lapis, are all inspired by the wealth of Renaissance Italy and the Byzantine empire.

Your picture reminded me of a painting that I saw in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in the 1970s.
https://www.ashmolean.org/forest-fire
Back then it was called Fire in the forest.
William
 
 
 

I wanted to create a mist-laden forest using a colour palette that I created, but as usual, it evolved. I think I used one of the fog overlays by Paper Farms but I can't remember which one. I created the artwork in Affinity Photo. The 'fire' effect is just a few abstract brush strokes which I turned to 'Screen' in the Layers panel as on 'Normal' they don't look any good. I have added the Affinity Photo file of the 'Fire' effect brush stroke, also a .jpg of what the fire looks like on black background, and a .png with transparent background. The Affinity Photo file has the four individual brush strokes that I used in my artwork. 
I attach the 'Spooky Brown Wood' colour palette I created plus a screengrab of the colours in the palette in case anyone wants to use it.




Spooky Brown Wood.afpalette Fire.afphoto

Longer yet narrower, so a different aspect ratio.
Hopefully for these images where three items are surrounded by white space that will not be a problem.
Hopefully, a Select All, Group, Copy in the A3 .afdesign file and then Paste into a new Ledger size document, then align centre will work. and if the upper margin looks too narrow then lower the language-independent glyph a little and possibly lower the code number and the QR code.
As I mentioned elsewhere, the Lenovo computer on which I have the Affinity Software, PagePlus X7, and High-Logic FontCreator has a faulty power switch. However, the computer does have a NOVO button and I have managed to get the computer started that way. The NOVO button allows access to special features, but it also allows a normal start too.
I am writing this particular post on my Hewlett Packard computer that is locked with Windows 10S and I don't want to unlock it.
I may well need to get a replacement for the Lenovo computer, a computer with full Windows and plenty of memory, and load all the software onto it. However, while starting with the NOVO button continues to work and no other issues arise with the computer there seems no urgency to replace it.
William
 

That sounds right. Ledger is 432 mm × 279 mm, which is pretty close to the 420 mm × 297 mm dimensions of A3 Landscape.

Hi William,
You should be able to do this all in Designer by adding a second art board to your project that contains the text you will like to have printed onto the back of your print out. When exporting a document with multiple art boards to PDF Affinity should create a multi page pdf provided the export area is set to whole document.
Thanks
C

Any progress on this please?
William
 

You might like to have a look at the posts in a thread entitled
Glasses emoji
in
https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2022-October/date.html
The first post in that thread has a link to a video.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-63229464
I hope this helps.
William
 

I won’t lie, ya lost me

What web browser are you using? Its settings will determine what happens when you click on a link. If it's choosing the wrong option, you might need to right-click on the link and choose Save Link As, or some-such option.