Re: Conlang Journal: deadline for submission of articles: 23rd June 2002

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:43:51PM +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
[snip]
> I'll use CM for the normal text yes. I still have to see how to use the CM-
> super fonts (I've installed them and modified the files I had to modify, but
> until now I didn't see any file I made using them. Maybe there's something i
> missed :(( ).
Read the documentation for dvips/dvipdf/pdflatex. You may need to manually
configure things so that Type 1 fonts are used by default. For my own
setup, I had to edit the config file of dvips to force it to use Type 1
fonts always; otherwise it will default to using METAFONT and embed the
results in a type 3 font.

(I can dream on about embedding METAFONT in documents, but that's just a
dream... :-P)

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> Well, obscurity of material is not a problem, it's a feature ;)) . As for the
> length, fifteen pages is a nice maximum, appendices included (go ahead if you
> want to make appendices, I've worked on them just today and managed to make
> each article having its own set of appendices :)) . Not that it was
> difficult :)) ). 10 pages would be optimum since your article won't be the
> titlepage article. I wouldn't recommend longer articles or the whole thing is
> gonna look much too unbalanced (although with an article of 15 pages it would
> already be quite unbalanced ;)) ). If you go above that limit, don't worry
> anyway and just send me the whole thing :)) .
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Actually, I've just decided to drop that article I was writing, on
Ebisedian's pronominal system. It's either too complex to fit in 10 pages,
or I'm just not going about it the right way.

So, I've instead written a very detailed (and I hope, fun) walkthrough of
my relay text from the 2001 relay, dissecting almost every word and
phrase, illustrating different aspects of Ebisedian at work. I've actually
finished writing the first draft (it has an IPA pronunciation guide too!
*and* some nice LaTeX macros, mmmmm), and will make a few more passes over
it before sending it. I like what I have so far! :-)


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