Editing Publisher:Refugee Phrasebook (section)

== Issues ==
=== no Git ===
Unfamiliarity within art school with to collaborative distributed tools work, such as Git.

=== Text layout - enemy of hybrid publishing ===
Lack of text-layout software capable of working in a '''hybrid publishing mode''', where:
* the designed layout will incorporate changes performed in the source document
* design decision can be applied to other editions of the phrasebook, like a template. (We wanted to make our work usable by others. We didn't succeed in that.)

The alternative to using text-layout software, would be to work with '''web-to-print'''.
Many issues, such as fonts (see below) or re-usability of styles, would be solved, but others such as the impositions that made the Benelux version into a booklet wouldn't have been possible. Yet Web-to-print seems to be the more promising text layout method for hybrid publishing projects like the RPB.

=== Fonts  ===
Finding a font that covered the many alphabets present in the Benelux version of the Phrasebook was not easy.

Supposedly Arial covers a lot of the languages present on the Unicode table. In reality it seemed to cover Latin languages, Arabic, Bangla, Urdu and Dari fine.
However when it came to Kurdish some of its glyphs where not present. The open-source font [http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page Dejavu-Sans ] saved us there

=== Unfamiliarity with non-Latin alphabets=== 
The unfamiliarity with non-Latin alphabets and the different steps needed when laying right to left scripts, resulted in a small disaster where Arabic lost its ligatures and was mirrored. 

One student from the team and the Phrasebook community helped finding the method to [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Refugee_Phrasebook/How_to_paste_Arabic correctly paste Arabic in inDesign]. The process had to be redone and this time before any thing we had an Lebanese student proof-reading it.
   
[[File:arabic_indesign_nadine.png|600px|Pasting Arabic in inDesign]]