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How to Type Stuff

mostly Light Novels, but you could use this for typing other stuff. This post is a Work in Progress. But my blog looked blank, so I published it. ♦ How much have you typeset? Not much. ♦  Do you do PDFs? No, because way  too many other people do. Besides, I like doing reflowable epubs more (because that's the format I always read in). ♦ What do you typeset in? Adobe InDesign CC. This may  change after a few weeks, not sure yet. ♦ Why InDesign? Of course, me being me, I'm more comfortable editing the code directly, but InDesign has made the tedious process of creating a table of contents and doing mundane styling things so much easier. Some people will feel more comfortable manually inserting <p> tags every single line. Some people don't format as much as I do. Some people like the GUI-oriented InDesign. It all depends on your tastes. ♦ Where do you get your full text documents from? I copy and paste everything into Notepad, save with UTF-8 encoding,