#mostly stressing over the typesetting

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[janmisali]

the official jan Misali styleguide

so uh I decided to compile together a bunch of rules that I've come up with over the years for myself for how I write videos. this is not comprehensive and is unlikely to be genuinely useful to anyone (very few of these are things I'd consider to be "good advice" for anyone else who wants to make videos, they're mostly just how I personally do things), but here we go anyway!

text

text should be typeset in Noto Serif by default, using other fonts for their specific aesthetic effects on a case by case basis, always presented in contrast with Noto Serif

text should be white, on a black background, with keywords highlighted in teal (#008472)

text should use justified margins, unless this looks bad or is too hard to do with the specific program being used

the pronoun "I" should always be capitalized

proper names should usually be capitalized, but may be left in lowercase to convey a less formal tone when appropriate

the name "jan Misali" should be written with a lowercase "jan" and a capitalized "Misali", following toki pona capitalization conventions (and in general, all toki pona text should follow toki pona capitalization conventions, only capitalizing proper names)

brand names with irregular capitalization such as "YouTube" should always be in lowercase ("youtube") as a sign of disrespect

words may be capitalized for Emphasis, but this should be avoided sentence-initially

avoid capitalization for any other purpose (such as sentence capitalization or all caps) unless this is done to imitate a specific style meant to contrast with the default Misalian style

in addition to the aforementioned teal-coloring and capitalization, words may also be marked as emphasized using italics

these three styles of emphasis should be used for different purposes: teal for keywords (emphasis primarily to aid in reading), italics for spoken stress ("normal emphasis"), and capitalization for the Other Kind (meant to get the reader to slow down and pay attention to the Specific Wording of the emphasized section, but without drawing immediate visual attention to it in the way teal text does)

punctuation should only be used when it is strictly necessary for the text to be parsed or when it conveys meaningful information about how the text would be read out loud (the apostrophe does not count as punctuation for the purpose of this recommendation; it is included as part of the spelling of words it appears in)

the word "amateur" should be spelled "amature" without explanation

numbers should be written out in full as words, unless they're being used for alphanumeric codes, entries in a numbered list, years, or a video about math

text should be written word for word as it would be pronounced out loud, including filler words ("um"s and "like"s) and contractions, following the manner of speech outlined in the next section

narration

everything should be written in a formal but conversational tone, with hesitations, filler words, and stutters carefully inserted to make it sound less "written", as though the narration is one continuous unscripted infodump

however, nothing should ever genuinely be unscripted. everything should be phrased very carefully to convey information precisely and efficiently in a way that is easy to understand

there should be some sort of attempt to pronounce non-english words authentically, especially with proper names (unless there exists a common-enough anglicized pronunciation that you can be confident is more likely to be understood)

nothing should be written in a way that assumes that the audience knows less about the subject matter of the video than the narrator, except in very rare cases where this assumption is appropriate (such as when using an explicitly educational style, or when the subject is so niche that acting as though everyone already knows about it would be actively detrimental). information should always be presented as though it's a recap of common knowledge ("right?"), something that the narrator only learned relatively recently ("apparently"), or something that the narrator is unsure of ("I think")

jokes should never get "in the way" of the actual video. they should serve a purpose just like everything else. (the key question to keep in mind here is "if someone doesn't find this funny, what could they take away from it instead?". the answer should be something like "it would just be information presented in an unusual way" or "it would just be an awkward transition between two unrelated topics" or something. if the answer is "nothing, it would just be a joke they're not getting" then it had better be a really funny joke to justify its existence.)

calls to action should be avoided. the video should respect its audience members to make decisions for themselves, and only directly tell them what to do in exceptional circumstances

[noxexistant]

📓🎭The Delancey Brothers (both plz)

“both plz”

me about them constantly:

📓 a headcanon about their hobbies

in canon era, oscar tries to read. he needs a bit of escapism, and it helps in coming up with stories to tell mo, but his attention span isn’t great so he usually has trouble. he likes helping with typesetting at the world, he finds it rewarding and relaxing, and it works out when morris is working on the larger press machinery, gives them both something to do while still sticking together. he likes playing pool in bars, and he’s pretty good at it - he’ll make money off it, betting with people, wherever he can, and he’ll do the same with cards. he’s good at poker, but it takes a lot of effort to maintain his face when he starts getting frustrated.

morris likes organising stuff, he’ll sit and just fuss with a pile of books or papes or anything else. he likes drawing, but rarely has the opportunity - it’s much more often that he’ll be drawing with a stick in the dirt, or a piece of charcoal maybe, than he will with a pencil and paper. (he got in big trouble with wiesel for doodling on a pape once, even though it was yesterday’s, so now he won’t dare touch them for drawing.). mostly, morris likes watching oscar do stuff, especially stuff like playing pool. he likes being read to, or just talked to.

modern au oscar absolutely plays acoustic guitar, like alex jh. he sings too, but only for morris. he and morris had an old beat-up skateboard between them as teenagers, and they’d mess around on that - oscar learnt basic tricks, and held morris’s hands as he all but lifted his little brother onto the board and then pulled him slowly along short distances. he plays video games sometimes, particularly the few random consoles and games that care facilities always have, but mostly plays with morris for morris’ benefit, silly stuff like mario kart and games geared for kids on their easiest settings.

morris likes minecraft, and plays pocket edition on oscar’s phone. he likes lots of silly mobile games that are just enough to keep him occupied and rewarded, especially in higher-stress situations for him like new environments or travelling. he likes colouring and drawing a lot more since he has more chances to do it. he likes music, especially oscar playing the guitar, and stims as he listens - he likes pressing his palm or cheek to the guitar too, to feel the vibrations.

🎭 a headcanon about what they lie about

oscar will lie about anything. especially for their own gain, and especially to protect morris. if morris does anything wrong, no he didn’t. if anything is morris’ fault, no it isn’t.

(it used to be the opposite way around, when they were kids on the farm. even in the refuge, at first. he lied about everything being morris’ fault to save his own skin, because he was still a kid and didn’t really understand. didn’t yet know that morris was all he had in the world, didn’t love him like he deserves. morris took countless beatings for him, countless lashings, and never breathed a word of the truth that it wasn’t him. he doesn’t hold it against oscar either, though oscar holds it against himself.)

oscar was the one to lie about their family name too, unable to stomach spouting his father’s to snyder stood over them, so he read “delancey” off a street sign and that was their name then. he’s lied about his age to get into bars, lied about mo’s to get into theatres, lied about their jobs and origins and first names and whatever the situation has ever called for. he sees nothing wrong with it. it’s a skill, and it’s necessary.

[coachdrita]

Mellel demo

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Freshman year is stressful enough that you don't want to have to deal with debugging LaTeX code just to get your paper in by the due date. I suggest you get Mellel or any other word processor, and use it to write your English class essays. For that, Mellel will do just fine (as will iWork and others). Plus sharing files with classmates gets annoying when not everybody can read/edit/understand your files.įrom the sound of it, you'll mostly be using this to write papers for class. If you are doing only text, LaTeX is likely more power than you need, and the excess control you have over typesetting styles is more of a distraction than an aid. If you want to write out math equations that look professional quality, there is no substitute. The real strength of LaTeX is mathematics. With LaTeX, it's a tough learning curve because you basically have to learn a new programming language, but once you get the hang of it, you can make publication-quality documents. With Mellel, you can get started easily and get something that looks good enough for most things, but not perfect. LaTeX is, as somebody mentioned earlier, a language for typesetting. Mellel is "what you see is what you get". Mellel and LaTeX are very different beasts. I have recently gone through the same exercise that you are, so I speak not from experience with either option, but from experience with your situation (starting grad school in 2 weeks, gulp!).

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Hugh Howey, Mark Coker, Ashwin Sanghi, John Grisham, and Margaret Atwood (a winner of the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000 and 2019) are some famous authors who have opted to self-publish their books. With the emergence of self-publishing platforms like Amazon KDP, one can self-publish a book even without external support. Yet it is always advisable to seek expert guidance from a professional self-publishing company. This is recommended to

get an error-free and properly formatted and typeset book (in contrast to the books published through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform that are mostly improperly formatted or full of errors);

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[angstandhappiness]

BAH HAH oh yeesh, that sucks

@rosslynpaladin In case you wanted a fantasy metaphor of what it's like to be disabled.

Translated with permission!!

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Note from author: Wouldn't it be hard for half-foots to go to the movie theater?