Publisher:Refugee Phrasebook - Revision history

Andre: /* Text layout - enemy of hybrid publishing */

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Text layout - enemy of hybrid publishing

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	* 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.)		* 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 ~~such as inDesign~~ would be to work with '''web-to-print'''~~, like many of the Phrasebook were produced~~.		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 ~~have been~~ 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.		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 ===		=== Fonts ===
	Finding a font that covered the many alphabets present in the Benelux version of the Phrasebook was not easy.		Finding a font that covered the many alphabets present in the Benelux version of the Phrasebook was not easy.

Andre: /* Fonts */

2016-04-15T10:40:17Z

Fonts

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	=== Fonts ===		=== Fonts ===
	Finding a font that covered the many alphabets ~~covered~~ in the Benelux version of the Phrasebook was easy.		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 ~~fact~~ it seemed to cover Latin languages, Arabic, Bangla, Urdu and Dari fine.		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		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

Andre at 14:44, 8 December 2015

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	[[File:arabic_indesign_nadine.png\|600px\|Pasting Arabic in inDesign]]		[[File:arabic_indesign_nadine.png\|600px\|Pasting Arabic in inDesign]]


			== Locations of Distribution ==
			* Rotterdam
			* Amsterdam - behind the train station

Andre: /* Fonts */

2015-12-03T13:44:41Z

Fonts

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	Supposedly Arial covers a lot of the languages present on the Unicode table. In fact it seemed to cover Latin languages, Arabic, Bangla, Urdu and Dari fine.		Supposedly Arial covers a lot of the languages present on the Unicode table. In fact 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 [~~Dejavu-Sans~~ http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page] saved us there		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===		=== Unfamiliarity with non-Latin alphabets===

Andre: /* How did students get involved? */

2015-10-30T10:25:10Z

How did students get involved?

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	== How did students get involved? ==		== How did students get involved? ==
			The project appealed to us in WdKA publication station, as besides being important voice in this time of humanitarian crisis and European amnesia and arrogance, it was a project that require a '''hybrid publishing workflow''' and '''collaboration''' between many participants - two aspect we have been exploring for the past year in the Publication Station from the Willem de Kooning Academy. [[[[File:hybrid-workflow.png\|thumb\|right\| Hybrid Publishing workflow]]


	Just like the tutors or volunteers from the outside, by receiving an email about the project asking if anyone would be interested in collaborating.		Just like the tutors or volunteers from the outside, by receiving an email about the project asking if anyone would be interested in collaborating.
	A few of them joined, for different moments in the process and different modes of collaborations - designing the phrasebook, folding it, or distributing. But it all happened very organically. Students and staff members were deciding by themselves what they could or could not do.		A few of them joined, for different moments in the process and different modes of collaborations - designing the phrasebook, folding it, or distributing. But it all happened very organically. Students and staff members were deciding by themselves what they could or could not do.

Andre: /* Issues */

2015-10-30T10:19:52Z

Issues

Andre: /* How did students get involved? */

2015-10-30T10:15:32Z

How did students get involved?

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	== How did students get involved? ==		== How did students get involved? ==
	Just like the tutors or volunteers from the outside, by receiving an email about the project, asking if anyone would be interested in collaborating. ~~And there were a~~ few of ~~these~~, for different moments in the process and modes of collaborations - designing the phrasebook, folding it, or distributing. But it all happened very organically. ~~It students really~~ deciding what they could or could not do.		Just like the tutors or volunteers from the outside, by receiving an email about the project asking if anyone would be interested in collaborating.
			A few of them joined, for different moments in the process and different modes of collaborations - designing the phrasebook, folding it, or distributing. But it all happened very organically. Students and staff members were deciding by themselves what they could or could not do.

	After the team has gathered the phrases, agreed on essential languages, the format of the phrasebook, and it's structure, the design team - that consisted mostly of 2nd year BA Graphic Design students - organized itself to complete the layout. That involved having ~~some~~ doing illustrations, others making the layout, and ~~someone~~ assembling it together. Tutors worked with them, like equals, mostly fine tuning some rough edges.		After the team has gathered the phrases, agreed on the essential languages, the format of the phrasebook, and it's structure, the design team - that consisted mostly of 2nd year BA Graphic Design students - organized itself to complete the layout. That involved having someone doing illustrations, others making the layout, and assembling it together. Tutors worked with them, like equals, mostly fine-tuning some rough edges.

	Folding was the most fun part where many friends from the outside came to give a hang. We folded 2000 booklets so far.		Folding was the most fun part where many friends from the outside came to give a hang. We folded 2000 booklets so far.

	And currently are in the process of distributing them, but the lack of information of shelters is making it difficult.		And currently are in the process of distributing them, but the lack of information of shelters, and Dutch government strategy, where refugees are moved around the country in buses staying in temporary shelters for around 3 days, is making distribution and other grass-roots support difficult.

	[[File:wdka_00-rpb.jpg\|600px\| Design team working ]]		[[File:wdka_00-rpb.jpg\|600px\| Design team working ]]

Andre: /* collaboration involved */

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collaboration involved

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	== collaboration involved ==		== collaboration involved ==
	* compiling a new version		* compiling a new version
	* creating illustrations		* creating illustrations (uploaded to Wikimedia Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map-Belgium-Holland.svg],[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rpb_food_icon.svg], [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rpb_questions_icon.svg] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rpb_clothing_icon.svg])
	* layout design		* layout design
	* printing		* printing
	* folding		* folding
	* distribution		* distribution


	== How did students get involved? ==		== How did students get involved? ==

Andre: /* Who collaborated */

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Who collaborated

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	* [http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/wiki Publication Station] (Willem de Kooning Academy) staff		* [http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/wiki Publication Station] (Willem de Kooning Academy) staff
	* [http://www.publicationstudio.biz/ Publication Studio Rotterdam] staff		* [http://www.publicationstudio.biz/ Publication Studio Rotterdam] staff
	* many volunteers		* many volunteers from Rotterdam

	== collaboration involved ==		== collaboration involved ==

Andre at 10:07, 30 October 2015

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	== Welcome to Benelux PDF ==		== Welcome to Benelux PDF ==
	http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/phrasebook/RPB-basic-Benelux.pdf		http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/phrasebook/RPB-basic-Benelux.pdf

			https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Refugee_Phrasebook#Netherlands.2C_Belgium

	[[File:RPB-basic-Benelux.pdf\|600px]]		[[File:RPB-basic-Benelux.pdf\|600px]]

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

	=== Text layout - enemy of hybrid publishing ===		=== Text layout - enemy of hybrid publishing ===
	Lack of text-layout software capable of working in a '''hybrid publishing mode''', where:		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		* 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 ~~that~~ our work ~~could also used~~ by others. We didn't succeed in that.)		* 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 such as inDesign would be to '''web-to-print''', like many of the Phrasebook were produced.		The alternative to using text-layout software such as inDesign would be to work with '''web-to-print''', like many of the Phrasebook were produced.
	Many issues, such as fonts (see below) or ~~the possible of~~ re-usability would have been solved, but others, such as the impositions that made the Benelux version into a booklet ~~and not a collection of sheets,~~ wouldn't have been possible. Yet Web-to-print seems to be the more promising text layout method for hybrid publishing projects.		Many issues, such as fonts (see below) or re-usability of styles, would have been 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 ===		=== Fonts ===
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	Supposedly Arial covers a lot of the languages present on the Unicode table. In fact it seemed to cover Latin languages, Arabic, Bangla, Urdu and Dari fine.		Supposedly Arial covers a lot of the languages present on the Unicode table. In fact it seemed to cover Latin languages, Arabic, Bangla, Urdu and Dari fine.
	However when it came to Kurdish some of its glyphs~~/code points~~ where not ~~rendered~~. The open-source font [Dejavu-Sans http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page] saved us there		However when it came to Kurdish some of its glyphs where not present. The open-source font [Dejavu-Sans http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page] saved us there


	=== Unfamiliarity with non-Latin alphabets===		=== Unfamiliarity with non-Latin alphabets===
	The unfamiliarity with non-Latin alphabets and the different steps ~~that need to be taken where~~ laying ~~text that is written~~ right to left resulted in a small disaster, where Arabic ~~had~~ lost its ligatures and was ~~placed in mirror form~~.		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 ~~pasting~~ Arabic in inDesign]. The process had to be redone and this time before any thing we had an Lebanese student proof-reading		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]]		[[File:arabic_indesign_nadine.png\|600px\|Pasting Arabic in inDesign]]