This is a short description of how I approached this project, how I’m going to go about it in the future, which tools and software I’m using and what kind of knowledge I needed.<\/p>\n
In general, I either write in German or English and then translate the text into the respective other language. I have neither an editor nor a competent translator. Therefore, I’m very grateful for any feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m using Writer Pro by Information Architects<\/a> on Mac (Writer Pro in the US Mac App Store<\/a>) and iOS-Devices Writer Pro for iPhone and iPad an the US App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n iA Writer had already convinced me and with Writer Pro – in addition to the minimalistic approach and the perfect typography – they added a writing process. It sounds pretty simple, but that helped me a lot – like: really a lot. You can briefly describe the steps of the process as:<\/p>\n Especially the distinction between writing and editing is very important to me. A lot of the times, I tried to write down my thoughts and got sidetracked: While editing the first section, I completely forgot the rest.<\/p>\n Oliver Reichenstein of Information Architects describes the process and Writer Pro a little (way) more extensive in his article on Writer Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n Synchronizing data via iCloud makes it easy for me, to take notes on the iPhone, then go on writing on my iPad or Mac. I do all the editing on the Mac (more screen real estate). And the results can be read here on my website.<\/p>\n Writer Pro supports Markdown<\/a> formatting. Thanks to a plugin, I can use this format without any manual editing. It just works like a charm.<\/p>\n For the website, I’m using the blogging software WordPress<\/a> (on my own server). To make the technical part of the multilingual thingy easier, I’m using WPML<\/a> for WordPress.<\/p>\n The design is my own, self-made. Based on the framework Bootstrap<\/a>, it took me about 20 hours (and counting) to develop a “responsive design” (it’s not really my core competence). Responsive means basically that the site looks different and hopefully good on devices with different screen sizes.<\/p>\n The fonts, I’m using here are Museo<\/a> for headlines, menus and quotes and Museo Slab<\/a> for the text. Both fonts were designed by Jos Buivenga of exljrbis<\/a> and are provided as web fonts via Adobes Typekit<\/a>.<\/p>\n I selected these fonts, because on one hand, I really love the history of Museo and Jos, and on the other hand, I like the fonts – they are different but legible.<\/p>\n To be able to use the Markdown formatted texts from Writer Pro without any hustle, I installed the Markdown plugin as part of the Jetpack<\/a> (developed by the WordPress developers).<\/p>\n In retrospect, I might have been better off using a configurable standard theme instead of doing my own thing. It might have saved me a few hours of php, css, JavaScript and banging my head on hard surfaces. And all that with an investment of only $55.00 into something like the great Avada Theme<\/a> for WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a short description of how I approached this project, how I’m going to go about it in the future, which tools and software I’m using and what kind of knowledge I needed. In general, I either write in German or English and then translate the text into the respective other language. I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apresentationnovel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apresentationnovel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apresentationnovel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresentationnovel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresentationnovel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresentationnovel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresentationnovel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/184"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresentationnovel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apresentationnovel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How do I develop the Texts?<\/h2>\n
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