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.
Found a photo from ca. 1986, when I was 12 years old. Got my Schneider #CPC464 for christmas. Gray/black keyboard layout, green screen.
😆
