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Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 2:22 PM
Subject: Fiddling with "folios" for an eDen
Good souls,
I'm fiddling with "folios" for an eDen. I'm
doing one, for instance, on the eletters I'm writing this fall on hyperzine
design. The whole thing is informal so far as inclusion is concerned, but, then,
they're nicely hyperperfectly bound booklets.
A hyperperfect-bound eletter folio
The "Hyperzine 06" Sequence
Looking back into
2005 and ahead to 2006 and
thinking about hyperzine definition and
design
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Each letter has a bar menu on the top of
the scroll. It gives only the scroll-numbers, though, and you have to go to the
TOC. It's the first item on the bar menu. This sample folio has a lot of blank
scrolls ("Page can't be found") for new letters to be clipped
in.
This letter itself will very likely go into
this folio as #10. Hyperperfect-bound books and folios, hyperzines, or simply
ezines, sites, other "bound" gathers on the Web or CD-bound webs, are all
variants on one idea (which I like as well as concept) and
it's this idea which, as a psychic seed (where seed is a
past-participial form of "see") should gradually, and with other
seed-ideas change how you perceive, through a poet's innards, reality.
Anyway, I don't go back and look for letters that might bear on what's thought
about. I start with one, in this case Memo #1, the one that's in 2005 Juice
online.
Here's something of how to prepare eletters
to go into a folio. It's work. You'll want to make folios of your own letters,
probably, or, maybe a folio of somebody's letters to you. A folio that is both
you and somebody else will present some problems because letters are so quickly
sent, almost like brief phone calls. Deciding what letters, in what order, go
into an "exchange" c'n be tough. Still, here is what you
do.
Pull up in your mail program's reading
panel a letter you want to prepare for a folio. Hit the Forward button. Now, you
have the letter with it's heading as part of it.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:37 PM
Subject: Sketching ideas
Stephen,
Most people, listening to Bill Evans,
or Glenn Gould, or any music, musician, c'n likely get a tingle from
something that comes out at them. But maybe it takes a Houseman or a
Bennett to get goose bumps from reading a, or remembering a
read, line or phrase of a poem, not even hearing it played in the
moment. A listening reader, of course. It's spoken somewhere. In that part
II of Shards, I think, after a quarter century, what melts
distance is in the last line, it's no longer a wild deer, but
just the deer, the dear, ...touched.... Even the beat is
pulled up short with the dropped out word, the deer almost pulling back to
let itself be touched.... You can't plan that, or compose it. You have to
know that the deer always has the choice and, then, play your
action and the deer's choice, though it's left for after the last note
dies, it's played as an implication.
How would I explain that as a
technique. A horn player, or Shakespeare 'd say, elision. Leave out a
note. But you c'n only know when in the playing. And
your Houseman or Bennett has to enter into the playing. Here's Evans
again.
Some
people just want to be hit over the head, and then if they’re hit hard
enough maybe they feel something. But some people want to get inside
of something and discover maybe more
richness. |
If the formatting (see menu, varies for
different mail programs) isn't already html, select html
formatting (or, Microsoft may call it Rich Text, though rtf is another system
they've abandoned. Now, you'll do some massaging and I'll go into that. You're
going to have to do some other massaging, later, and you'll have to do that in a
text editor where your html source code will be printed as plain text. If you go
into a word processor that exports html, you're going to get screwed around.
You'll have to work.
In your mail composer, delete the "original
message" line. You can add comments above the heading, if you want. You will
have to go into the "source" in your composer. In Outlook Express three tabs are
on the bottom. Edit, Source and Preview. Other mail problems will do it
differently. If there are images, you will have to find the src="..." and
replace the "..." with the actual file name you will use. This is one sort of
massage. Later, you can, using a text editor, fix or change things. Some of it
can get complex. For instance, I have the mail composer and my own text editor,
a Windows program I wrote called eWriter that, by mouse clicks will do an awful
lot of batch typing for me. If you want something in a table, you have to plug
in the top and the bottom of the table (type it in the text editor. Put the top
above a <div> and the bottom below a </div>. I c'n give you
templates to use in cut and paste. IE changes my table code to html 4.01, with
TBody and all. But it doesn't change what the browser does. If you use
one of my letters or one of yours that you answered using mine, maybe replacing
text in a table, it'll all be done.
Then, to get your file out (and work on it
in a text editor from then on, got to File/ Save As. If you forgot to format in
HTML and it started in plain text, you won't have an option for saving as html.
Go back and change the format. Then, you can Save As as eml, txt or html. All
are really text files. HTML files are text files. that's why you work on them in
a text editor. Browsers typeset html or htm files for you. If you are going to
put it in a folio, think through your folio filename and use it, with a number,
for all of the folio letters. That's the basics. Now, it's just learning an art
of book binding.
You can put a folio on a (data) CD for
carrying, or, since a CD holds 650-700 megabytes, you can put a whole library on
that CD - until it gets pretty big. In any eDen directory or CD you should give
each folio it's own sub-directory, using the folio filename. You will have
images (such as my g.gif, with which I often sign my eletters) and, possibly,
other embedded materials such as audio or even video
clips.
What about the bar menu? And the TOC which
is the file you put on an icon on your desktop? The bar menu will look like this
(as HTML text):
< a
href="Hyperzine06TOC.htm">[TOC]</a> |
<a
href="Hyperzine061.htm">Hyperzine 06... #1</a> /
<a
href="Hyperzine062.htm">Hyperzine 06... #2</a> /
<a
href="Hyperzine063.htm">Hyperzine 06... #3</a> /
<a
href="Hyperzine064.htm">Hyperzine 06... #4</a> /
<a
href="Hyperzine065.htm">Hyperzine 06... #5</a> /
<a
href="Hyperzine066.htm">Hyperzine 06... #6</a> /
<a
href="Hyperzine067.htm">Hyperzine 06... #7</a> /
<a
href="Hyperzine068.htm">Hyperzine 06... #8</a> /
<a
href="Hyperzine069.htm">Hyperzine 06... #9</a>
<br />
<hr />
<br
/> |
This is the bar menu for the scroll whose
top is given above. To put this into your TOC page, erase each "/" in a copy of
the menu on the TOC page and replace it with <br />. That will stack the
items. Clear a line after an entry and insert the Subject line from the
appropriate letter. You may put a further note in a
<blockquote>...</blockquote> tag pair.
Well, it's only a
sketch.
