Another week in the life of GURPS

[dr_kromm]

Gotta go, so this one has to be quick (whence "Hermes"):

• Pyramid #3/18: Space Exploration is out!

• GURPS Low-Tech is now in very rough PDF form. It's nowhere close to finished – we still need art, for instance – but the layout is in good enough shape for me to review it!

• Elisabeth Zakes got all the backlogged GURPS contracts moving. Let's hear it for Elisabeth!

All the rest is . . . interesting, but nothing I can share at this time. Yeah, I realize that this is the Shortest Report Yet. Hermes, remember?

Comments

[wombattery.livejournal.com]

Yay, Elisabeth!

[snooness2]

Yay Low-Tech rough pdf!

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

If there's no art, but there's a layout, does that mean that the pages now have designated spaces for the art to occupy, with the laid out text flowing round those spaces? And has it then been decided which pieces of art are going to land in which designated spaces, when the art comes in? I can see that that could be a possibly workflow for game books, but it's radically different from scientific papers, where the paper comes in with the art already prepared and the typesetter has to figure out art placement and text flow conjointly.

In any case, I hope there's going to be lots and lots of art, to liven up those dozens of tables.

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

If there's no art, but there's a layout, does that mean that the pages now have designated spaces for the art to occupy, with the laid out text flowing round those spaces?

Exactly. It's basically a PDF with no art, rough tables, and I'm sure a few last-minute editorial posers for me to address. Where art would go, there are big white spots.

And has it then been decided which pieces of art are going to land in which designated spaces, when the art comes in?

Truthfully, I couldn't tell you. After 15 years of this, that part is still a total mystery to me.

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Having somebody on contracts more-or-less full time is a godsend.

[dem0nsbane.livejournal.com]

Low Tech already in rough PDF . . . That's great! I hope the book will be available in that format through e23 before having it in printed format as the latest GURPS hardcover releases, for easing the waiting and correcting some typos before sending it to the final printing process.

I can understand the concern about images. Really they can add very much to a book like this, and a poor selection of them can be frustrating. Well, that happens in many books, though.

Regards

art

[dem0nsbane.livejournal.com]

I like very much the feel of the images included into many Osprey Publications regarding ancient cultures. Even if many of them are or were black & white photographs of archaic museum pieces and such, something of that style could be, on my view and taste, excellent as art pieces for these Low-tech books.