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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
Well, I think we could almost always do fleurons and fonts? Though then as now, fleurons have a terrible habit of getting orphaned. And my grandfather, who worked a hot metal Linotype machine, impressed on me that unless you were printing a wedding invitation one font family per book was almost always plenty, and only cads and homosexuals chose sans-serif. :-)
Whether I'm editing a video or setting a book, 'Because I can' has never seemed a good enough reason for gimmickry. But if you insist on geometric transitions or Comic Sans, throw money at me and I'll deliver with a smile!
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Well, I try very hard not to embed Papyrus, Comic Sans or Algerian, any of the other fonts (yes, Bleeding Cowboys, I'm lookin' at you!) that have become woefully overused.
Really, seriously, I meant other things that we do; making print book elements like ingredients and amounts set out using tables and other things that we couldn't do, 9 years ago. Or the adjustable-size pullquote decoration that we do. Those sort of things that aren't foof for foof's sake, but have a real purpose.
And yes, of course, in an ebook, a fleuron will be orphaned, somewhere. It will happen. Just as so too will widows/orphans. 'Tis the way of it.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Hmm... most of the assistance that I've given has been get to that vanilla ebook. For me, that is the starting spot before adding in the nicer touches such as graphic scene breaks, chapter numbering with graphics and an accent font, etc. And lest we forget, perhaps some proofreading though that seems to be on it's way to a lost art.
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The cleanup of most files, from manuscript, is indeed the real art. I concur.
I guess, from my perspective, we do so much work from PDFs, from other file types (other than plain old manuscripts, I mean), from the world's crappiest INDD files, even from--yeah, verily--powerpoint, that that's what I'm really talking about. Let's face it, you don't need a degree in rocket surgery to make a 60K word bodice-ripper from Word.
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