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Apr 15 |
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PDF e-book page size and fonts Are you conflating submission requirements (what editors require for evaluation) with publication requirements (what the question seems to be asking about)? |
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Apr 15 |
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Which e-book formats to use to get a larger readership? PDF on a 7" device, at least, is unworkable unless you have exceptionally-good vision. In general PDF is bad for accessibility; by encoding page format you are forcing people with a display smaller than your target to scroll awkwardly. Are you sure your content is worth that trouble to your potential readers? (So aside from epub and mobi, if you're aiming for tablets, HTML will serve more users than PDF will unless you're doing small-page format.) |
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Apr 10 |
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Automated correction of google translated documents Thanks for the edit! I hope someone here can help you find such a tool. |
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Apr 10 |
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Automated correction of google translated documents @translator, welcome to Writers.SE and I'm sorry this is being frustrating for you. As Neil said, we want to make sure your question is one that's on-topic here, and, if not, help you find a better place to ask. |
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Apr 9 |
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1st person story, but the main character will die in the end and some of the story needs to be told after his death. How to solve this problem? Any time I read a first-person story a part of me says "ok, well at least we know this guy will survive". So it's pleasant to encounter cases where that's not true. (The third-person epilogue is the most common solution I've seen, but I really like Lauren's additional suggestions!) |
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Apr 8 |
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Writing in second language @Des, no need to apologize; we're trying to help you improve the question, not make you feel bad. Could you clarify what you mean by "what terms and rules should I notice"? Are you asking about how to choose the best English words for the foreign-language concepts you're trying to convey? |
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Apr 8 |
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Writing in second language Des, I'm closing this question so you can clarify, so people don't answer the wrong question (or guess). Please ping Neil or me when you've edited. Thanks! (And please don't be put off by the canned "not real" language below; we don't get to control that.) |
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Apr 8 |
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Writing in second language I'm having trouble understanding what you're asking. Are you asking about rules for poetic forms in English? Particular English terms/words that have special meanings (symbolism, etc)? Something else? |
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Apr 7 |
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Ways to improve your writing skills Glad to help! Do also consider the other answers; reading helps you get a feel for the language, and what I suggested helps you put it into practice. |
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Apr 7 |
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Is a glossary needed in a novel? @Des, you should explain the term when you introduce it; don't force readers to go to a glossary to get that information. But providing a glossary with additional information, or for reference when the reader sees the term again in 50 pages and says "wait, what was that again?", is another matter. |
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Apr 5 |
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The value of labeling book sections Much better, thanks! Reopened. |
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Apr 5 |
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The value of labeling book sections Hi tylerharms. I agree with Lauren that this is too open-ended as written. I'm going to close it; please do edit to focus it more on pros/cons and less on discussion, and then ping a moderator (or flag) so we can consider for re-opening. (Close isn't forever; it's just temporary, so people don't go off and answer the wrong question.) Thanks very much; I think there is a good question in here and I look forward to your update. |
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Apr 5 |
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How to avoid specifying the gender in English when the original text does not specify it? I can see why this has been nominated for ELL, but I think there's a subtle difference: ELL will tell you words you can use, but Writers will tell you how to write around the problem. I think the latter is on-topic here, but (e.g.) a question about the correctness of singular "they" would not be. |
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Mar 27 |
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Should I write about how the character solved some riddle or let the reader solve it himself Yes, this -- if it's important enough to mention the riddle then the question merits some air time, and if it's not important, then we don't need to know what the specific riddle is either. |
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Mar 27 |
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How can I consistently distinguish among tables, fields, and records in a database? I answered the specific part of your question, but I'm not clear on what you're asking in the final paragraph. Are you looking for prose that explains what a DB table is, or a technique you can use, or something else? |
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Mar 24 |
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Hand wrote 200 page novel- how many typed pages is that? See ElizaWy's answer about word count, rather than page count, being the key factor, but to answer what you asked: you could type up a couple representative pages from your notebook and see what you get. |
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Mar 17 |
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Best way to emphasise the greenness of the fields in spring in comparison with summer These suggestions convey the sense of the original text without being a full-on rewrite (though see msh210's comment on another answer about negative vs positive). Shlomi, I assume your goal is closer to translation than to rewrite, yes? |
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Mar 15 |
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What to name the parts of my thesis Hello and welcome to Writers.SE. Why do you want to use uncommon names? Does your universtiy expect you to follow a particular form (so that all theses will look the same in broad strokes)? |
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Mar 13 |
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singular or plural for index entries I agree that being able to bring a source would be better, and I don't have one to hand. I wonder which style guides cover indexing and not just "body copy"? |
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Mar 13 |
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singular or plural for index entries This is what I do. In the doc I'm currently working on, I talk about the such-and-such server (singular) and index it in the singular, but I talk about the things returned from that server in the plural and index them that way. |
