Guide to Writing and Publishing in Shroud of the Avatar

I have created a book chronicling the history of the Temples of Syrinx (PoT). Thank you for this guide!

 

This is a fantastic help, thank you so much for putting this together!

Now if we just get line breaks added... the rest is workable. On that note... if the text file has an empty carriage return, is it ignored?

 

Thanks Rennik. You can space out the text with empty lines, I use it all the time for title pages. They are not ignored.

However! There are sometimes problems around new pages in books. There may still be a bug where something gets ignored. If you do find something that doesn't seem like it's registering, probably should be bug reported.

 

Excellent, thank you! From what I see, it looks like— using the standard English font— you can fit 22 lines of text per page. Since I'm doing a book of poetry, that will help when trying to figure out how to "paginate" the original text file... don't want a page turn in the middle of a stanza...

 

New lines will be ignored until the first text in the file past the page break. For example, if there are 22 lines on a page and I have 15 short lines of text (that do not wrap to the next line) followed by 15 blank lines, the content will flow over to the next page and seven of those blank lines that fall on the next page will be ignored. To resolve this, I always count out my lines and use the text "[ b ][ /b ]" (without the spaces) on the first line of the next page. You could use any text, but I choose to bold/unbold because it only adds seven characters to the character count and it's invisible in the finished product. However, the caveat is that if any of your lines wrap to the next line, it will bump everything down a line and you won't fit 22 lines on that page.

For example, to get two empty lines on page two of Petaluma the Chicken, I do this:

Code:

[b][/b]

       @>     Petaluma was a chicken
     <~)       in the city of Brittany,
      ^^  .   Down by the water where
                the grubs were aplenty.
                                                 }
                                              }
He liked to watch seagulls                ,,
 soaring in the sky,                    @
But he was sad, though with     <~)
 wings, he just could not fly.       ^^

                               
                He went only as high
        @=     as his tiny legs hopped,
    (v~v)    But try as he might
                 his body always dropped.



[b][/b]                   @>
                 <~)
                  ^^      ~^~
                 
One day after failing his latest attempt,
A worm lounging near saw his fowl discontent.
It suggested to him, “Try a new attitude,
And get an assist from a higher altitude.”
So he hopped on a bucket and then to a hedge,
And made his way upward onto a stone ledge.
                                  @>
                            . . <~)
                          /    ^  ^
             . . .       /     
           /     \    /      [][][][][]
  ___/      $%&&%    |][][][][][|
 |\__/|       &#%&#     [][][][][]
 |        1      %#%%&    |][][][][][|
 |___|       &&#%$     [][][][][]

Notice it's lower than the start of the opposite page.



I do A LOT of edit/import/examine iterations before I'm satisfied.

 

I finally got around to publishing my first book using this great guide! Is there a public library anywhere in Novia that books can be donated to?

 

Thanks for the great guide

 

Writing some rare books Consider it a player quest to find, read and own them !

 

My question is when selling a book. The sales slip only gives location and buyer. It does not say what book was sold. Is there anyway that can be changed so that i know what was sold. Thanks

 

bump for the love of the written word!

 

Any updates because of the new printing press "sword of midras printing press" ? How does it work? It shall make copies from the sword of midras book.... But how i do not seem to own it or to create it...