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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 14 March 202215 March 2022

Pelikan fountain pens

I raved about the Goodnotes app in several posts, saying that it has largely replaced pens and notebooks for me. I still stand by its strengths: digital notebooks can be synced on all devices; its ability to search through handwriting recognition; its flexibility when it comes to sharing and exporting notes, etc. What I’m a …

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Posted on 20 September 202020 September 2020

Olympia SM7 Deluxe

(Erratum: the typeface should be called Professional Elite No. 41)

Posted on 22 August 202022 August 2020

Using a typewriter to teach typography

Posted on 21 August 20205 February 2023

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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