So productive!
Added 2024-01-14 20:18:25 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
The solstice holiday was a very productive one for me, for the theory textbook. I did a fair bit of writing and editing, but the most ambitious thing was re-exporting all the illustrations and figures and diagrams, and swapping them into the LaTeX file as vector PDF instead of raster PNG. It lowered the file size of the finished document DRAMATICALLY. Now instead of being a whopping 800MB+ file, it's a lean 53.7MB.
It was nice having two weeks of break where I could fuss around with things like that. Now that I'm back at the day-job daily grind, those opportunities will be more scarce. I am still dedicated to spending a little time *every week* on the book, even if it's only an hour or two. Velocity will fluctuate but I mustn't ever let it stagnate.
Thanks to the new Patrons who recently joined! It is so helpful. The web server costs are all covered, and in December I splurged and bought Dmitri Tymokzco's new book, "Tonality: An Owner's Manual". I've just barely cracked chapter one due to time limitations, but I'm eager to get deeper into that as the winter weather gets worse and I go deeper into hibernation mode.
The latest build of the book is 139 pages, not including the front or back matter. There is a massive glossary and a huge Appendix of tables... The entire document is 226 pages. And it's maybe 50% finished.
I hope you are all well
Cheers
Ian
