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Choosing a Font for Long-Form Japanese, and Why the Typeface Is Not the Whole Answer
When your eyes tire after hours of writing, the typeface is not the only cause. Readability comes from the com […]
Highlighting the Selected Word: Catching Repetition You Did Not Notice
When one phrase catches your attention during revision, selecting it and looking for the same text nearby help […]
Fixing Garbled Text: Reopening a File with the Correct Encoding
When you find a garbled manuscript, the first thing to do is not save it. If it is only garbled, the file is i […]
UTF-8 Conversion on Mac: Reading the Red Marking as a List of Places to Fix
When a Shift_JIS manuscript is converted to UTF-8, decoding the source correctly and selecting UTF-8 as the de […]
Creating a KDP Table of Contents: Choosing Which Chapters Appear
A title leaf or decorative divider ends up listed in the contents, and you worry it will confuse readers. The […]
Building a KDP Table of Contents from Your Headings
In the rune Studio workflow for a KDP EPUB, table-of-contents entries take their labels from heading text in t […]
Making a Kindle EPUB: Setting Up for Horizontal, Reflowable Text
For a horizontal, reflowable Kindle EPUB, the priority is not preserving fixed page positions. It is preservin […]
What Is Actually Inside an EPUB: Contents, Cover, and Colophon as Files
An EPUB file is a bundle of files. In the rune Studio export verified for this article, the body pages, conten […]
Recommended Mac Text Editors: Judge by Manuscript Management, Not Editing Speed
Once the number of files grows, judge an editor on two connected questions: can you keep the manuscript and re […]
Handle a Large Novel in a Text Editor by Defining the Functions That Must Survive
A large manuscript does not need every visual aid to remain active. It needs the work required by the deadline […]
Converting to UTF-8: The Three Steps and What to Check at Each One
Converting a Shift_JIS or other non-UTF-8 manuscript to UTF-8 has three conceptual stages: decode the source b […]
Automatic Shift_JIS Detection in a Text Editor, and Where It Stops Being Reliable
When you open an old manuscript, you do not choose the encoding — the editor guesses it. That guess is usually […]