I have written before that I consider myself to not have a strong imagination. This is why I’ve spent so long on finding imagination helpers, and designing my own. One of the reasons for this is that I think in abstract terms, and I gravitate to patterns. That is, I …
In an earlier post I wrote about refactoring my LaTeX code. I probably should’ve led off with how I want to change what it does, to explain why to refactor. Support More Document Styles Right now, all my published documents have much the same style. This style has changed slightly …
… but I need to redefine ‘victory’. I’m not going to finish the 2025 A-Z Blog Challenge in April. I back-dated the post so it lines up with the calendar… but today is April 27 and I am ten days behind. I’m writing ‘N’ and the schedule calls for ‘X’ …
As always, it’s a little cheap and I do aim to have another ‘M’ post. Still, I like having a midpoint status check. Date Letter Words Title 2025-04-15 M 182 Midpoint Status Check 2025-04-14 L 480 LaTeX Refactoring 2025-04-13 2025-04-12 K 542 Knowing What I Need 2025-04-11 J 847 Just …
In recent posts I used my existing LaTeX class and style files to make the pictures for the posts. I created those LaTeX files more than ten years ago. They’ve been updated and and otherwise changed as I had more ideas and learned things. Like many systems that have evolved, …
I’ve spent a lot of time describing presentation options for object headers and diagram nodes. I wrote about the sorts of things I would need, not didn’t actually list them. Happily, despite the number of node and header styles I’ve shown, I actually don’t need that many. Style Guidelines I …
In my latest post I compared many color schemes for my diagrams. I talked about ‘printer friendly’ and ‘printer hostile’ styles, but I hadn’t tried the friendly versions. Header Design My object headers have six components. I’ll describe the common application of each element, though some objects have variant applications …
Until now, my workflow has included TikZ options in my taxonomy file. This worked well enough, as far as it went, but were at the ‘actual options’ level. That is, the detailed information, including color names and the like, that would go into the LaTeX source on conversion. This ended …
Rightfully this would be under ‘T’ for ‘Taxonomy’, that being the file I’m talking about. However, ‘T’ is still a couple weeks away, and I want to write about this now. Background Helper stage in my workflow provides metadata used across the game system, regardless of domain. <sys>-taxonomy.docx is the …
I have a strategy and updated workflow diagram, but now to figure out the actual plumbing. This post is mostly me thinking out loud, so don’t feel bad if it doesn’t make sense yet. That will come. Better LinkGraph First, I need better metadata in my diagrams. Known: I will …
