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[Whill]

[Forceally]

I know I should be making the next version of The Force Compendium available tonight. However, Google Drive seems to be having some problems. I'm trying to make it available, but as it's loading, it's saying something went wrong while trying to load the webpage, and I have to reload the webpage. It also says Error Code: Out of Memory. Don't know what's going on there since I have about 3 gigs out of 15 gigs of memory used.

So please be patient while I try to get this issue resolved. I'll post the link when I can.

[Whill]

[Forceally]

Did it. And success. Go ahead, make it available in the library, and make the link for it.


Well, it got here in a roundabout way, but here's the 9th edition of my workk: The Force Compendium


I wanted to add more, but real life and making ends meet got in the way. I do know the following:

Rewatch YouTube clips of Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor for information about the planets. Same thing for Young Jedi Knights for info about Tenoo, and Ahsoka for information about Peridea and Seelos.

Read all the books and comics that I previously listed and am waiting for.

I know it's a lot that got piled up, but since the next big thing is that Star Wars: Outlaw game, and that doesn't look to be about the Jedi, I think I got a bigger window to do things. An entire year instead of a few months, since there's no Phase IV for the High Republic, and I don't believe any movie is coming out next year either. Shows yes, but personally I don't see them as major events forthcoming like the movies were.

And speaking of shows, I watched clips of Ahsoka on YouTube, and that includes the ending. I was so certain that the show was going to take Ahsoka into the Unknown Regions to look for Thrawn and Ezra. Wasn't expecting an entirely new galaxy, or that the Nightsisters would make a comeback. Anyway, throughout the entire series, I could hear a certain song in the back of my head that would be appropriate to hear during the end credits. It's Saihate by SennaRin - the ending song for the first part of Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War. It stuck in my mind because of these lines translated from Japanese:

Something no one has ever seen.
The furthest reaches are now visible to us.

Whisk it away beyond the ends of the earth.


The lines from the song definitely gives you the impression that the heroes are facing something they've never seen before. Going to witness abilities they've never encountered before. I thought Ahsoka and co. were going to be facing something new and completely beyond their experience while searching the Unknown Regions for Ezra and Thrawn, and that Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati were the first representatives of these new potential threats. Didn't turn out that way, but you're left with the feeling that it might be in the future for Ahsoka and Sabine on Peridea in Season 2. So the song is still somewhat appropriate.

I'll see if I can do a better job keeping you up to date over the next year. I already know this much - one or two more entries, and the Table of Contents will spill over to another page. Which means every entry in the Table of Contents and Appendix will be repaginated again, regardless of how many new entries there might be. Argh!!!

[Inquisitor1138]

Craputer is not cooperating so i can't view web-based pdfs today, i look forward to checking this out when i can.
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[Whill]

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It's getting close to the time I release the next edition of my work. I can already say this much about it - the table of content has increased to the point where I have to even repaginate the Foreward in the listing. And I still have a bunch of things to insert.

Anyway, I have two questions about the presentation of the work, and it'll probably affect the page count in the end. Consider all the various conversions that were made for the WotC books with the OCRB and RCRB rules - none of the Saga rules. Next, consider the homebrew sourcebooks on the forums here. If these were all printed out into books like the ones WEG used to publish - hardbound and softcover, what size paper would be used? 8.5 × 11? 11 × 17? Also, what would the margins be? I've been using the 8.5 × 11 page size with 1" top and bottom margins and 0.5" left and right margins. While I don't know about the margins, I have a feeling that WEG used 11 × 17. I have those books on my computer in PDF format, it's not the same as actually having them in my hand and using a ruler to make the determination. Can someone let me know ASAP? Last thing I need is to finish adding in everything, update the table of content and appendix accordingly, then change the page size and margins and have to redo the last two again. Especially considering the current page count. I think it's going to take a week for me to read through the entire work looking for any last minute edits while updating the table of content and apprendix. I'll leave that last remark to your imagination.

[pakman]

Most I would say use 8.5" x 11", which is standard north American size I believe. Weg did not do 11x17.

Margins vary - but that depends on if you are planning on just for electronic or also print (bound) versions. The difference is the inside margin to account for binding (it is usually larger). Again, or most folks this might not matter.

I am working on a large (250 pages) star wars project which I am formatting for eventual printing, with full edge bleed and tight margins - and some print shops want that on a large size page (you can get various templates from different book printers) - however - I am really just being OCD and if I used really wide (1" or more) margins and 100% white page background that would not matter.

So, I would say do 8.5 x 11 with a 1" or .75 margin.

best of luck in your project - I have a lot of respect for that amount of depth you have put into it.
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[Forceally]

I've done what I can for this year - going through materials, updating, revising, making new additions. Now comes the tedious part. Going through the work for editing. Noting where the entries are and updating the table of contents and the appendix. And I want to get this done so I can have it available for you all on Christmas, so I got two weeks to do that. Here are a few clues as to how much this work has expanded:

Table of Content expanded five pages.
Appendix expanded two pages.

You can imagine how much fun I'm going to have over the next two weeks.
After getting home from work tomorrow and decompressing a little, the fun begins. Again.

[Whill]

Thanks for the update on our only truly living document.
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I don't use tags or outlining. As I enter each new entry, I add the entry to the appendix manually. I wait until the table of content has been updated with the correct page numbers before assigning the same page numbers to the appendix entries.