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@Hitch: Your posts illustrate a good reason for keeping my ebook work at it's current level instead of trying to make it a full time occupation. I don't depend on the income so I am free to suggest that an obstreperous customer go for a long walk off a short dock ( replace with the cliche of your choice
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But somehow--and really, not sure how this happened--I ended up with a bunch of people here that rely on me to pay their bills, mortgages, eat....man, it's a whole other world. Hitch |
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Snort, not hardly.
It's funny, I used to believe, back when I was in RE Development, that I understood stress and pressure, doing half-billion-dollar hotels with absurd deadlines, and all that. In truth, you don't understand either until you own a small business with employees. DAMN. It's one thing to think about doing without yourself, or not being able to pay your bills, etc.; it's completely different to think about letting down other people and their families, that rely on you. It's...it's unbelievable pressure. (If I'd known then....) Quote:
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Hair dye is cheap?
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1. The HTML TOC + toc.ncx follows the reading order. Your physical book goes from page 1->999, so this will follow that: - Recipe #1 - Recipe #2 - Recipe #3 Let's call this one "All Recipes". 2. A "Categories TOC" (or whatever they call it in cookbooks). This can be a 2nd HTML TOC that you can then sort however you want: - Beef -- Recipe #2 - Chicken -- Recipe #3 - Vegetables -- Recipe #1 You can stylize this like: Code:
<h2>Beef</h2> <p class="toc"><a href="../Text/Recipe02.xhtml">Beef Wellington</a></p> <h2>Chicken</h2> <p class="toc"><a href="../Text/Recipe03.xhtml">Chicken Parmesan</a></p> * * * When the reader wants a specific recipe, they use #1. If they wanted to see all beef recipes, they hop to the Categories TOC, then go to where they want. * * * Side Note: And I agree with JSWolf on TOCs pointing to themselves in the NCX... pretty dumb (and I always get rid of it). But in this cookbook case, I'd add the Categories TOC in as the first link: - Categories TOC - Recipe #1 - Recipe #2 - Recipe #3 This way, the NCX readers can easily hop to the categories if needed. And in the ebook itself, I'd place the file directly after the frontmatter + TOC: - titlepage.xhtml - copyright.xhtml - TOC.xhtml - Categories.TOC.xhtml - Recipe01.xhtml Quote:
Some of the worst settings to ever be devised. Overscan zooms in and crops the image (losing ~5-15% at least). Fill stretches up/down + left/right, completely distorting the image (the "oompa loompa" effect). I explained similar situation back with book covers in "SVG images - why?". Now with cellphones being all sorts of odd ratios (18.5×9)... some people are cropping/distorting their videos/images even further to "fill the screen". It's a travesty. And don't get me started on disgusting vertical video... (Made even worse by "converting to widescreen" by filling the black bars with complete gibberish! The absolute worst of all worlds!!!) Last edited by Tex2002ans; 06-07-2021 at 07:06 PM. |
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As for cellphone video. Shoot it landscape unless there's a reason to shoot portrait. Most portrait cellphone video I've seen could have easily been shot landscape. |
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have vertical phone users never used a handheld nintendo?
Why does the phone sw even permit it? Unlike portrait still images there is no valid reason for portrait video. |
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I was browsing art by an Albrecht Anker, d. 1910, and he seemed also to be captivated by kittens and cats. I believe the ancient Egyptians started it. Cat worship, not vertical video. We've only had decent video since about 1935, the Baird stuff was a dead end copy of Victorian mechanicals, though his film camera to nearly live TV was amazing, and also landscape mode. |
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I believe I'm helped in this because I don't really do the "smartphone thing." I never developed the habit (thank Odin) because they didn't work here, at my newer home, happily; we're surrounded by mountains or high-ground on all 4 sides, so our physical home--the 4 walls--is a dead spot. When smartphones were really taking off, at the end of the aughts through now, mine was a paperweight, used only when I left to go shopping or whatever. (As I have my office here). And as I loathe social media...meh. I spend quite enough time in front of screens, anyway. Hitch |
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