March 13 2010 • 12:14 PM
InDesignSecrets Podcast 121
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- Best practices for organizing and naming text styles
- InDesignSecrets Seminars & Conference update; new speakers
- Mike Rankin’s interview with ePub expert Gabriel Powell at the O’Reilly TOC Conference
- Emerging and evolving open standards discussed at the conference, such as the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) for eBooks
- The new “browser wars” (how different eReaders interpret the same content feed)
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Sort Bookmarks
- Bonus: David recites from memory the first 20 digits of Pi (in honor of Pi day, March 14—aka 3.14!)
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Members! Watch your e-mail for discount codes to InDesignSecretsLive.com events: InDesign Seminars and the Print and ePublishing conference)
> Vancouver InDesign User Group (where David’s speaking soon)
> O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference
> Gabriel Powell’s InstantInDesign web site
> CreativePro.com reprinted Gabriel’s ePub articles from InDesign Magazine
> CreativePro.com reprinted Gabriel’s ePub articles from InDesign Magazine
> Learn about the OPDS
> Lexcycle’s Stanza application (Note: Lexcycle rhymes with Bicycle)
> David’s Joy of Pi book
My sister sent a text message to me yesterday- “Happy Pi Day”
David, I immediately thought of you!
To both of you, thanks for the tips on organizing styles
Thanks for the reminder to provide a clean template version if the file will be re-used. Often files will be used by volunteers or admins new to InDesign; I name styles with the initials of the company/org after – i.e. BodyTextWL – which distinguishes them easily from any imported Word styles that come in with text. That way they can click on the “WL” style names and clear overrides to fix the imported text up. This also helps their printer if they need to do file preparation later on.
I have only been able to memorize Pi out to 3.141592653. During math class in high school I was bored and that was as far as my calculator would display it.
Fritz: You need this http://www.joyofpi.com/pi.html
Good luck!
I prefer mine á la mode
Just celebrated our 35th anniversary on March 14. Friends gave us this present:
http://www.whatonearthcatalog.com/whatonearth/Home-Garden_1AD/Tabletop_1BX/Item_The-Pi-Dish_VC4603_ps_cti-1BX.html
They said it was for the king of puns and the queen of pies. Perfect.
Phil
Great episode! I’m just checking the links mentioned. Thanks for sharing.
Best regards from Austria!
Martin
Here’s my “never-to-be-humble” opinion about naming styles. I use the following format for naming styles:
A paragraph style would be named as follows:
para-B-BodyText
Having this information quickly available, makes diagnosing style problems much easier.
Just my 2 cents.