#text editing

[tangerp]

Here is a short list of basic resources to aid in your Tumblr RPC experience and resources to aid with editing replies.

RPC Resources:

-XKit Rewritten- Allows for trimming reblogs for replies, quick reblogs, quickly adding tags, and mutual checks on the dash. Chrome Download . Firefox Download -New Xkit - An older version of XKit Rewritten, but includes features such as their blacklist that is more powerful than Tumblr's blacklist feature. Chrome Download . Firefox Download -UBlock - Useful for blocking ads, scripts, and disruptive UIs. Link. -Session Box - A multi-login tool for Chrome-based browsers that allows a new tab to access a different login. Works well for users with multiple main accounts who don't want to log out each time to switch Tumblr accounts. Firefox has this as a built-in feature. Chrome Download

Text Editors:

-Grammarly - A typing assistant that was founded in 2009, Grammarly is a free program that aids in the grammar of your typing and makes suggestions for clarity, spelling, and punctuation. Chrome Download . Firefox Download -Space Generator - Created by Byluna, this text editor allows for quick font editing for your reply. You can give custom colors to your text, double space, or triple space at the click of a button, and if you accidentally close the tab the site will not lose your progress. Link. -Cool Text Fonts - An older site that provides fancy fonts that you can copy and paste into your replies. Link.

Disclaimer: It is not necessary to edit your text in the Tumblr RPC.

There are plenty of other useful sites and programs, so if you'd like to add any of your own, feel free to do so!

[indieyuugure]

You said that you use Procreate for drawing, but what do you use for lettering? I know a lot of procreate comic artists import the pages to another program for the lettering and was wondering if you do the same.

btw love your comics I get so excited Saturday when you update, the first thing I do when I wake up is read it :)

People important their files into other programs for lettering? That sounds like a huge hassle! No, I use the “text tool” in Procreate, lol

On the top tool bar I go to the wrench, which then I go to the sub-group “add” then I click “add text”

Then I get like a little text bubble that is can type whatever. There’w no limit to the amount of characters and the font is easy to change.

I’ll type what I want and click the “Aa” in the top right corner of my keyboard to take me to the font editor. Procreate has tons of fonts preinstalled, but I’ve also downloaded tons of fonts off the internet.

In my comics I use the font “Jack Armstrong BB” in “regular” for the majority of the text. I use italic for thoughts and then bold italic for exclamations, annunciations and other loud expressions. I also use the font under it, “Japanese Robot,” in all caps italic as my sound effects, though I downloaded that one. It doesn’t come with the program.

So yeah, I just fit the text to be where I want it and boom, there you go!

I will say though that for larger speech bubbles like the ones you more commonly see in ROTP, there’s some tricks to getting the text to be in an elliptical shape.

If you want detail on getting an elliptical shape, you can ask, but essentially just set it to center alignment and press the enter key wherever you want the text to stop and go to the next line until you’re satisfied with the shape.

Good question! :]

[t1meslayer]

hey! i’ve been reading a handful of ur fanfics (which r rlly gud btw!) and i was wondering how you were able to resize and edit the text like this

and also like this

i’d be rlly interested to know because i’m unsure if it’s even possible through normal means on ao3!

Hey hey! I'm very glad you're enjoying my work <3

Thanks so much for taking the time to give me a read!!!

The text editing stuff is actually a basic function on AO3, you can do it too! When you're looking at the text editing/posting page, you'll see at the top that you can utilize "plain text with limited HTML"

Clicking the question mark icon there shows you all of the HTML functions that are available, with a basic explanation for how to apply them in your text:

The TL;DR is when you've picked one you want, you can start that section of text with the HTML signifier in diamond brackets <like this>, and then end that section with diamond brackets using a forward slash </like this>

(Be sure to include the ending set of brackets otherwise you'll accidentally make the entire rest of your story in italics or somethin - not speaking from experience I swear)

However, I found a "story" posted in 2015 that was particularly helpful with visualizing the major elements. It's called "A Complete Guide to 'Limited HTML' on AO3" by CodenameCarrot. In particular, this highlighted stuff like being able to do sub- and superscript text using <sub> and <sup> that I used (I think) to great effect in my Pokemon Scarvi piece "Paradiso" - where a lot of my experimentation happened under the guise of nightmare bs.

The way I made text look almost like the "Chat" option here on Tumblr was through "Special Types of Text."

They all produce the same result when published on AO3, but I personally use <tt>.

I've also been messing with image embedding like the text message thread in "Peaks and Caverns" and my Author's Notes in "Stone-Cold Lovers (ch. 3)," there should be more of that coming in pieces that I'm writing now! I learned a good practice for how to do so from the 2014 piece "Super Awesome Learning How to Embed Place" by leftennant.

Tbh I've been a bit surprised at how many people have asked me about this text editing stuff in my comments, because it's one of the first things I noticed is available compared to, say, fanfiction.net. I like that you can use the basic tools of the service to tailor your stores to a vision in even small ways, so I've even been testing things like pseudo-graphic design like recreating RIAA record plaques using just HTML features on my Splatoon fic "By Moonlight":

Hopefully these explainer pieces can help you out with it too!! They're the only things I currently have bookmarked on my AO3 'cause I refer back to them so often.

[masthecles]

JUST REALIZED FOR THE FIRST TIME EXACTLY HOW THESE INDENT SLIDERS WORK AND IT'S A GODDAMN GAME CHANGER

[lavapulsemods]

How this all works

This is why testing is important. Here's a bit of gendered dialogue I missed when just going through the game files. In case you're curious and/or learning to romhack too, let me walk you through how I changed this:

The modding technique I'm using is called a "layered file system." It works similar to 3DS DLC or patches, except less destructive because rather than modifying the game files, we're overriding them. You can use these mods with Citra on your PC or phone, or with LayeredFS on your 3DS.

So, after I copied the game data from my 3DS cartridge to my PC and extracted it, I got something like this:

Notice how most of those files end with .bin or .all? Those are placeholder extensions that mean my computer actually has no idea what kinds of files these are. If you're really lucky, the file will have a "signature" inside that tells you what kind of extension it's supposed to have. No such luck here.

In this situation, you basically have to go through everything, change bits here and there, and see what that does to the game. Most of the time, the game will crash, freeze, or continue as if nothing's changed, which isn't much help. Rarely, something will be noticeably different. Slowly, you can use those differences to make an educated guess about what files do what. The whole process feels a lot like debugging.

A few things helped me parse stuff quicker:

1. I've developed games before, so I know roughly what to expect when it comes to how games work.

2. I've been programming since 2nd grade and now have a CS degree, so I'm also familiar with binary, hex, reverse-engineering, and generally how software works.

3. I was able to get ahold of the other language copies of the game and compare their filesystems to narrow down which files specifically control in-game text, but wasn't much help when figuring out how the graphics are controlled.

In the case of Nori's date dialogue as seen above, I knew by now that the text would be contained in event_mes_data.bin. So I opened up that file with a hex editor and...

Believe it or not, this is one of the most intelligible files in the game.

It becomes a lot more readable after I load in the encryption table I built based on creating and comparing save files to figure out how in-game text is encoded.

Much better. Now I was actually able to use the search function to find the dialogue in question so I can edit it.

"Girl" is one letter longer than "guy," so I had to figure out how to shorten the message elsewhere to make it fit without changing what she's saying. Without going too in-depth, basically you need to stay within the character limit or you'll mess up literally every single message that comes after it in the file and possibly cause a crash somewhere else in the game that'll be difficult to trace back to this.

Luckily, finding that space for an extra letter was easy here; I changed "who will" to "who'll."

Save the modified file to my mod's directory, relaunch the game, trigger the heart event again and...

Voila! I ended up tweaking it a bit more after this, but now Nori's text has been all gayed up. Much better. 💙

[random-jot]

what is happening

Hey: listen everyone i just reblogged a chat post and noticed i was able to edit it, just like the fabled tumblr of old, so

Everyone: who sees this feel free to reblog it and try and change it. has staff brought back post editing or is it a mistake AND am i the only one this has happened for or can we all do it?

[u-mspcoll]

“Textual Editing and Criticism: Principles and New Perspectives” Third Session of a Series of Virtual Encounters on Book History

We are very pleased to invite you all to the third session of a series of virtual encounters on various aspects of book history. On this occasion, our webinar is devoted to textual editing and criticism. Our speakers will discuss innovative approaches to digital technology and scholarship in the edition of literary texts, ranging from Chaucer to James Joyce.

Talks & Speakers:

“I unleash Multitudes: Editing Chaucer as a Woman of Colour” Barbara Bordalejo (Canterbury Tales Project)

"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Annotated Facsimiles as Ideal Editions" Shef Rogers (University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand)

"New Directions in Textual Genetics: Cultural Genetics" Wim Van Mierlo (Loughborough University, UK)

Chair: Pablo Alvarez (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Organized in conjunction with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, this event is scheduled for this Wednesday, 27 January at 2 p EST. Upon registration you will receive the Zoom invitation one day before the event.