Re: Missing Person.

Subject	Re: Missing Person.
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english, rec.arts.sf.written, sci.physics.relativity
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From	Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid>
Organization	Watcom Pro Ltd.
Message-ID	<CVGCS.5$8Xf6.1@fx11.ams4> (permalink)
Date	2026-10-23 18:45 +0800

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On 10/23/2026 1:23 PM, Don wrote:
> Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> On 23/10/2026 09:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> snippage
>>>>> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
>>>>>> Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
>>>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
>>
>>>>> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
>>>>> we can do to follow up.
>>
>>>>> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
>>>>> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
>>>>> often there's no trace.
>>
>> I couldn't remember the name of the person who converted Dorothy Heydt's
>> novel, The Interior Life" except his first name, Bill, so looked up old
>> posts of Dorothy's that I had kept and was amazed at the number of names
>> of posters who have disappeared. I didn't find Bill's surname.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> One of the many pertinent usenet articles crediting Bill Gill appears
> below. (It stimulates schadenfreude if search engines amped with
> allegedly all-knowing AI fail to find such usenet posts.)
> 
>    Subject: Digitizing _The Interior Life_, redux
>    Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 23:20:03 GMT
> 
>    So Bill Gill has scanned _TIL_ for me, and designated three
>    (well, four, including chapter titles) fonts for it, and I have
>    proofed and re-oroofed it till my eyes are ready to fall out of
>    my head, and sent it back to him.
> 
>    And today I got the following email from him:
> 
>    >I have started trying to embed the fonts we selected into the
>    >EPUB. Only one of the 4 will embed.  The others are locked to keep
>    >them from being embedded.  I have found a utility on line that will
>    >unlock them.  That of course kind of skips merrily over the copyright
>    >laws.  Trying to find unlocked fonts will start us down a long and
>    >winding trail. What do you want to do about it?  At this point I will
>    >leave it up to you.
> 
>    >We could:
> 
>    >break the fonts and go ahead and use them
>    >start searching again.
>    >Choose less distinctive fonts that are already unlocked.
>    >Others?
> 
>    I have suggested that he spend a couple days on option (3).  But
>    I think we need advice at this point, from people who have gone
>    through this already.
> 
>    (Though, probably, not with three fonts.)
> 
>    Any ideas?  LWE, I'm asking you in particular, since you put a
>    lot of your OOP books online and seem to have succeeded.
> 
>    (Though, probably, not with three fonts.)
> 
>    Dorothy J. Heydt
>    Vallejo, California
>    djheydt at gmail dot com
> 
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Depending on exactly why you want different fonts, you can try to make
do with the TeX Gyre collection, but it's typographically boring.  It's
just a recreation of the classic PostScript fonts, but with a license
that allows you to embed them in your EPUB [1].  I have done this once,
as an experiment that I didn't finish; to create ffj ligatures which are
useful for Icelandic.

   https://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre

Back then, FontForge was sufficient to create the ligature(s), but nowa-
days I'm not sure I'd use the same tool.  You can use TeX Gyre as a
starting point for your own fonts, or create some from scratch for your
book [2].


Best wishes, and happy typography!

[1] Or at least, that's how I recall thei license.

[2] Ok, I /doubt/ anyone will take this challenge, but if you don't have
a budget to buy a font, nor hire a font designer, your options are limi-
ted.
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            Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-23 19:00 +0800
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                Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-24 05:03 +0800
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                Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-24 14:59 +1300
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                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-23 13:46 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-10-23 23:20 -0400
                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 08:41 -0700
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    Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-23 15:02 +1300
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