got the rotated text done yesterday. bah, it was difficult! and I don't even really know why. it's not a standard feature of #troff, so one has to inject some raw postscript in there. this should all be simple, but aww, there were some weird interactions. yet i made it, it works, so there.

also did the proof-reading on these latest parts, found a few small mistakes. i still need to do one (easier) table, and then i'm done with the first major part of the chapter, ca. 50 pages, 40%.

i think i'll actually print that out and try binding it into a booklet, as a trial.

#typesetting #c64 #assembly #retrocomputing

some nice progress. i've made it into the instruction tables. they are full of quirky stuff, just look at those little devils...

took a bit to set up the macros for things, but after that it got pretty nice to work with. now of course i have about 12 pages more of this to type, and they have some new weirdness in them... *sigh*

#troff #typesetting #c64 #assembly

yup. i guess we're (i am) doing this. at least until i run out of steam.

my aim for the moment is this chapter, which has ~120 pages and a bunch of uniform tables/data. i guess i've made it 10% of the way already. :v

right now i'm working in a tic-toc fashion: rough out some pages in an ad-hoc way to find out what i need, then clean things up introducing macros etc., then repeat.

#troff #typesetting #commodore #c64 #assembly #neoretrocomputing