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Posted on 19 August 202220 August 2022

The podcast, transcribed

In the previous post I posted the audio podcast and the script/notes that I had prepared ahead of time. Now, I’m posting a transcription of it. It was done automatically with otter.ai, an excellent automatic transcription service. Though I had to edit extensively still, to edit out the ums and ahs and the you knows …

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Posted on 21 August 202022 April 2021

Articulating text hierarchy

(scroll down for article in digital text and images) Visually coding the structural hierarchy of a text (ie different levels of headings, etc) is the bread and butter of what we need to handle when writing and editing documents of all kinds, in word processing, page layout and digital publishing environments. Graphical resources are used …

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Posted on 26 July 202026 July 2020

Thought, word, deed

Posted on 23 May 202026 July 2020

Some random thoughts

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