{"id":874,"date":"2006-06-22T21:27:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yetiinabox.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/22\/editing-the-book\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T21:27:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T21:27:34","slug":"editing-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/2006\/06\/22\/editing-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing the book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent the last week finalizing edits on <em>Remaking Buddhism for Medi\u00e6val Nepal<\/em> and the only thing I am sure of is that there are still mistakes. I have spent so long fiddling over details that the book is in danger of becoming stale. On the way I have learned a few boring technical things.<br \/>\n1. It\u2019s good to have your own style files.<br \/>\n2. I will definitely have to keep working within TeX if I want to use Bembo as a typeface and still achieve good diacritics.<br \/>\n3. XeTeX is a good thing, but it doesn\u2019t magically make diacritics where the font does not already support combining characters. Getting a \u1e0d in Bembo will always require doing \\d{d}.<br \/>\n4. Indexing is an art. Defining commands well ahead of time for your index is a good thing.<br \/>\n5. I wish TeXtures had been released for Cocoa. That will never happen, and it will always be difficult to get full font support in quite the way TeXtures could do it.<br \/>\n6. During the course of the thesis, and then the book, I have seen two excellent pieces of software die: TeXtures and Papyrus. Neither has been replaced by anything as good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent the last week finalizing edits on Remaking Buddhism for Medi\u00e6val Nepal and the only thing I am sure of is that there are still mistakes. I have&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,242,120],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mac","tag-tex","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2DSYH-e6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}