RetroFun.PLOne of my 27 hobby projects is recreating and re-typesetting my favorite computer manual, 100% vector.
@rmcretro look at this :-)
Afterglow@RetroFunPL @rmcretro
Great project!
"Re-typesetting" sounds like #latex
Are you using LaTeX for that?
Will it be available freely, when finished?
@afterglow @rmcretro it will, but I obviously also aim to get two things:
* get it *printed* and spiral-bound (i'll worry about the cost later)
* incorporate the Polish translation from the era in the same format — something that never existed in this format!
I'm already crying internally thinking how to best approach the diagrams. The originals are so perfect (the whole typography is), but if I just vectorize them, they need a good amount of fine-tuning.
And: went more modern and trying typst
@afterglow @rmcretro oh, actually another problem for later may be font licensing 🤔. Seems like the best candiates are official Monotype fonts, more expensive than I thought — I should check, using them in a PDF is definitely covered by the one-time license, but redistributing, if it was to be open-source, may be much worse.
@afterglow My dad imported a Schneider too! I love the unbreakable Centronics connectors; I trust them much more than edge connectors. And I still own, and it still works, THAT computer, the same Amstrad I learned my first BASIC commands on! :)
The German manual was challenging to read for a kid who had never had any German classes... :D
When I was around 12, I got a CPC464 (also a Schneider, no color on the keyboard for me back then, sad German gray only;)), only to get the color monitor 🙂