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As part of a new project in Cranda, I'd like to ask promision to 'publish' the works of Scott Siskind and anyone else interested. The idea is to make things, such as Menelmacari or "ancient" history available to the modern micronationalist.The "books" will be published in power point, and have old fashioned fancy covers, with publishing dates, etc. They'll also be published in a font meant to bring to mind old Latin treatese from the Renaissance and Middle Ages, with long s's and ligatures. I'll also be adding footnotes, and introductions.I probably won't actually wait for promision, since I have about a week to release the first book (the University publishing them won't even be established by then) before I disappear for most of the rest of the summer. I thought I'd inform everyone though, and hope that no one minds me jumping the gun. Waz ist wunders hie geschehenDaz ein Magt ein Kint gebarHêre übr aller Engel ScharWas daz niht ein Wunder gar?-Walther von der Vogelweide

Promision? Richard LyonYansha Elaer Kyon gef ShanPernem kahn gef kuymal per varga stiPernem kahn gef varga per kuymal sti

Out of curiosity, why are you using Power Point? I would think that exporting a pdf from Word would be simpler and probably more appropriate for publishing written works. Also, I find that .ppt files tend to get really huge, really fast, even faster than .pdf files. *throws grenade for the hell of it*BO0O0O0O0/\/\!!!!!!

Typo. It wouldn't make any sense at all the use power point would it :-p.And yes Ric, it is his intellectual property technically. Waz ist wunders hie geschehenDaz ein Magt ein Kint gebarHêre übr aller Engel ScharWas daz niht ein Wunder gar?-Walther von der Vogelweide

I'm sure he'd be honored. Why, the Roman's would think he had tarantism if they saw the jubilation he would display if he knew someone valued his work! [22:19] Bill7D0: hahaha. Another broken worthless family. You really are worthless.[22:20] Bill7D0: Really, it figures. Parents were piss poor and thus you are piss poor.[22:28] Bill7D0: So, I'm emmigrating Shireroth, and this time, something's not my fault. It's your fault. And you can blame yourself for being a constant ***.

*throws in his two bits*Powerpoint is evil. Micro$oft is evil. 3e knowe ek that in fourme of speche is chaunge / With-inne a thousand 3eer, and wordes tho / That hadden pris now wonder nyce and straunge / Us thenketh hem, and 3et thei spake hem so, / And spedde as wel in loue as men now do...

Nick saw fit to ruin a perfectly good thread with a typical "Microsoft sucks because Bill Gates wears glasses" type answer. Why Nick. Why.

I still say a pdf is the preferred method for a fancy document that you want to widely distribute electronically. If I remember correctly, they're not even that outrageously large when exported from a program like Word (and yes, you can get an Open Office equivalent). This is as opposed to a scanned pdf of something like a Vampire: The Masquerade corebook. Not that I would ever know of such things. *throws grenade for the hell of it*BO0O0O0O0/\/\!!!!!!

Blah! I van't to suck... your BLOOOOOD!

Auuugh...PDF is the spawn of the devil. It's like normal files, except you can't open it without special programs that occasionally crash the computer, you can't edit it without other expensive programs, and it's rather difficult to read. "Whenever I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my revolver." - Herman Goering

Well, since it's been established that PPT and PDF are evil, and because I can, for your benefit, also declare that DOC is evil... how about we just keep them things in HTML? Jag har glömt hur pjäserna stod!

*agrees whole heartedly with Ari*Power point is the devils bile

Not quite the devils bile, but close.

devils bile? is that like the dog's bollocks? Gryphon the Pure- Shirithian Elder - Dutch of Kildare - Minister of the Interior - High Priest of Apostrophe aka Grammar Fuhrer - Director of the Shirithian Census - Imperial Advisor -q=parseInt(Math.random()*gryphSig.length);q=(isNaN(q))?0:q;document.write(gryphSig[q]);q=parseInt(Math.random()*gryphSig.length);q=(isNaN(q))?0:q;document.write(gryphSig[q]);q=parseInt(Math.random()*gryphSig.length);q=(isNaN(q))?0:q;document.write(gryphSig[q]);

Sure. Why not?

If PDF is evil, why do all research papers use it? Bill Dusch - Archon of SoloralismPissing off Micras, one nation at a timeProud to be Apollonianvar txtList = new Array()txtList[txtList.length]="'Whoa! You're in...college now? You got...older! I guess that's what happens when time passes, but still...' - Scott Siskind";txtList[txtList.length]="'The Hindenburg Uncertainty Principle, by contrast states that before you get on a blimp, you can never be certain whether it's going to catch on fire or not' - Scott Siskind";txtList[txtList.length]="Why do I need some cheese?";txtList[txtList.length]="'me to. well almost, we have to worship the living god, Bill3000.' - Hubert";txtList[txtList.length]="'Y'know what? I am never going to get out of micronations. I think I need to be assassinated or something.' - Jason Steffke";txtList[txtList.length]="'Bill, you are STILL young and stupid.' - Jason Steffke, Control of Destiny 1";txtList[txtList.length]="I think we've gotta promote you. You now have slightly more diplomatic skills than a random rock. - Sirithil nos Feanor, to Bill Dusch";txtList[txtList.length]="'Wow. I'm this close to admitting you're no longer young and stupid.' - Scott Siskind, to Bill";txtList[txtList.length]="'ow! I've been thrwappen! Now I have a sudden urge to enter politics...' - Gryphon the Pure, after being hit by a shard of Pure Mischief";txtList[txtList.length]="'I could probably date Hypatia's Mom. Now THAT'S scary.' - Ryan Caruso"; j=parseInt(Math.random()*txtList.length);j=(isNaN(j))?0:j;document.write(txtList[j]);

The hidden premise in that argument seems to be "and research papers aren't evil", something I find it hard to agree with.

On the internet all Swedish laws are written in unscrambled html, and all EU laws in some obscure pdf...Now which is the lesser evil? Richard LyonYansha Elaer Kyon gef ShanPernem kahn gef kuymal per varga stiPernem kahn gef varga per kuymal sti

Sweden, of course. Why? Ask Ari.

Quote:If PDF is evil, why do all research papers use it? Because they're written in TeX (or LaTeX, though really LaTeX is just a package on top of TeX), which is durned hard to convert to HTML but somewhat easy to convert to PDF. Jag har glömt hur pjäserna stod!

I'm confused but quite happy to see Ari back.

He's talking (I believe) about all of the complicated mathematical text in the super-technical parts of research papers (as if anything in a research paper isn't super-technical). It looks a lot better in the format it is in than it would in html, and I can totally understand that as a good reason to use pdf. *throws grenade for the hell of it*BO0O0O0O0/\/\!!!!!!

*head explodes*