Weekend 'Warrior'...
Managed to spend a good solid ten hours working on my book ... not 'my book', actually, but QUE's book. I'm sharing the glory with two other writers, as usual, so I have eight chapters to do this time as well as the index. I wrested control of the index away from their indexer because frankly I do a better job of indexing.
Anyway that was my Saturday.
Then I reset my display effects to 'cleartype' which is a font display choice offered by Microsoft for XP. I'm using XP for my book authoring because I have a full install of Office XP 2003 and for books it's better than the other versions because I can program with it (for Word). If you have Windows XP, you might want to consider using cleartype. Here's how and why:
Microsoft claims Windows XP's ClearType technology improves text readability on laptop, Pocket PC, and other flat-panel screens. The system takes advantage of the screen design, in which each pixel comprises three adjacent vertical bars (subpixels, in Microsoft-speak). In conventional font technology, each three-color pixel is either on (white) or off (black), and diagonal strokes--as in X, for example--may exhibit so-called jaggies because of the stair-step layout of the black pixels making up the letter. ClearType varies the intensity of the subpixels on the outer edges of each letter stroke, resulting in improved perceived sharpness of each letter.
To enable ClearType, right-click your desktop area and select Properties > Appearance > Effects. In the second drop-down menu, select ClearType.
The effect of ClearType is most noticeable at smaller font sizes and with italicized words. To judge ClearType's effectiveness, type a few paragraphs in your word processor and include samples of small, standard, and extralarge font sizes in both Roman and italic fonts. Then turn ClearType on and off and note the difference.
Are you interested in learning more about typography? While I'm not all that fond of Microsoft, they do have an interesting section on this subject. Several of my early careers were in the world of publishing (newspapers, magazines, ads and books) as a journeyman Typographer, a (book and article) content editor, layout designer and finally, as a font designer. I love the history of type and can go on and on about it, which I will, another day (probably when it's raining outside), but not today. So if you want to learn the basic type design terminology, well, I hate to say it, but Microsoft does a pretty good job here.
Anyway it's 7 am Sunday morning, and time for my breakfast at Waffle House.
ttfn.
Tante
Anyway that was my Saturday.
Cleartype
Then I reset my display effects to 'cleartype' which is a font display choice offered by Microsoft for XP. I'm using XP for my book authoring because I have a full install of Office XP 2003 and for books it's better than the other versions because I can program with it (for Word). If you have Windows XP, you might want to consider using cleartype. Here's how and why:
Microsoft claims Windows XP's ClearType technology improves text readability on laptop, Pocket PC, and other flat-panel screens. The system takes advantage of the screen design, in which each pixel comprises three adjacent vertical bars (subpixels, in Microsoft-speak). In conventional font technology, each three-color pixel is either on (white) or off (black), and diagonal strokes--as in X, for example--may exhibit so-called jaggies because of the stair-step layout of the black pixels making up the letter. ClearType varies the intensity of the subpixels on the outer edges of each letter stroke, resulting in improved perceived sharpness of each letter.
To enable ClearType, right-click your desktop area and select Properties > Appearance > Effects. In the second drop-down menu, select ClearType.
The effect of ClearType is most noticeable at smaller font sizes and with italicized words. To judge ClearType's effectiveness, type a few paragraphs in your word processor and include samples of small, standard, and extralarge font sizes in both Roman and italic fonts. Then turn ClearType on and off and note the difference.
Are you interested in learning more about typography? While I'm not all that fond of Microsoft, they do have an interesting section on this subject. Several of my early careers were in the world of publishing (newspapers, magazines, ads and books) as a journeyman Typographer, a (book and article) content editor, layout designer and finally, as a font designer. I love the history of type and can go on and on about it, which I will, another day (probably when it's raining outside), but not today. So if you want to learn the basic type design terminology, well, I hate to say it, but Microsoft does a pretty good job here.
Anyway it's 7 am Sunday morning, and time for my breakfast at Waffle House.
ttfn.
Tante
posted by Tante Waileka at 5:34 AM
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