Come to think of it, I could try to use this #
Hubzilla channel of mine as a #
FanFiction archive.
One thing I've occasionally done is typeset #
CDRR #
FanFic in #
LaTeX with all bells and whistles so that it looks like coming from a professional typesetter, from times before people took Microsoft Word for proper typesetting. I usually render them in various sizes: DIN A4 mostly for printing, US Letter mostly for printing (in case someone actually still prints out fanfic), 6" displays for e-readers (problem, Kindle users?), 5" for mobile phones.
But I've yet to find a place to upload my results, also seeing as the
RRDatabase still only exists as a static mirror. And even the RRDatabase has never offered PDF downloads, probably because it was launched in times when you needed lots of money to be able create PDFs in the first place and never really upgraded since.
Now that I've got this channel, I've got quite some file space along with it.
As of now, most of the fanfics I have in LaTeX are more or less classics by other writers than myself.
For example, save for a few remaining bugs, I've successfully put Michael Demcio's masterpiece
Rhyme and Reason, the very first CDRR fanfic that was intended as such and still one of the best, through LaTeX. It was originally only available on the Usenet and formatted for newsreaders with *bold* and _italics_, now left to people's imagination, and a maximum of 70 characters per line.
On the one hand, I've greatly upgraded it. I have of course moved away from monospace, at least mostly. Bold type and italics are rendered as such. The references look nicer now. And there's a clickable table of contents.
On the other hand, I've stayed true to the original in many points. Only the parts have page breaks, the sections don't. The titles of both parts, sections and the whole work are still in a monospace typeface as a call-back to the old Usenet days. The whole sectioning is largely customized in order to stay faithful to the original. Notes are still at the ends of the nine parts; I haven't converted them to footnotes although I could have. The sole "exception" is Part II which has the notes before Doubts About Dale, again, just like the original.
As for my own fics, all I have right now is the vaudeville theater play parody
Dinner For One Mouse, two works in progress and a still rather half-baked and experimental songbook with my song parodies in it.
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