User:Ssstephen/prototype/20231002
As well as making connections I want to examine ones that are already there, and examine my own practices as they exists generally.
Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting: what are you doing here stephen? Documenting old and new things that I am doing and how they connect.
What does it mean to perform?
per- word-forming element common in words of French and Latin origin, meaning primarily "through," thus also "throughout; thoroughly; entirely, utterly," from Latin preposition per (see per (prep)).
The verb was used with wider senses in Middle English than now, including "to make, construct; produce, bring about;" also "come true" (of dreams), and to performen muche time was "to live long." Related: Performed; performing; performable.
How can a performance be open in the same way as an object can, to refuse to be finished?
a performance
Is switching to linux a performance? who are the audience? where is the performance happening, how is it being documented?
I have an email from a freelance client so I will switch to a different thread. I read the email in a specific mode because I know if contains a direction to be followed. They would like an edit to be made to a date in a document I created. It is a simple line edit so I decide to make the change now, rather than add it to the to-do list. I open Adobe InDesign 2022 now as it takes a few moments to load. I'm still using 2022 because I know it is very stable and my files open on it correctly. At the moment I dont have time to use the 2023 version, although I also have that installed on my HP Windows laptop.
I find the indd file to be edited. I keep the files organised: one directory per client, within this one directory per job, within this versioned files so I have backups. I open the latest version of this file. Oops I opened it in 2023 InDesign. Try again. I got distracted talking to Aglaia but it was loading anyway. But it takes me a second to focus again.
I use InDesign's "Find/Change" palette to locate the page of the document. I type "resources reque", no need for the full title of the page. I press Alt+Tab to switch between my email, InDesign, and of course this tab to write these notes. I triple check that I am making the correct edit, and that it does indeed only need to be changed in one place. Better to confirm now than have to edit again. I check one extra time because this annotation process is distracting me.
When I am sure, I save the file (not a new version as this was a minor edit) and I export a new pdf. The pdf's are both dated and given a letter to show which version of the file it is. This one is version E. I use keyboard shortcuts throughout this process, to find, to save, to export, to open the directory, to switch tabs. I save the file one more time (why?) and close InDesign.
I quickly write a response to the email and attach the file.
No problem *****, attached here. Thanks, Stephen
In total the process took about fifteen minutes, including this documentation. Without the documentation maybe 3-4 minutes.
now I try to connect the pen plotter to marcus
today I think I will learn how to use debian some more.
What is the difference between "su" and "su -"? Something to do with $PATH. Something to do with directories.
Its a little confusing switching between two laptops. The manual for DraftPro DXL plotter reminds us to use the hpgl IN command.
And first the tty needs to be configured: "9600 baud, no parity, 8 data bits, one stop bit, and continuous error checking." on page 7-7 of the manual.
stty 9600 parodd parenb ixon ixoff -F /dev/ttyUSB0
Then you can send it hpgl files or directly send commands with echo.
cat file.hpgl > /dev/ttyUSB0
echo "IN; SP1; PU0,0;PD0,100;PA100,0;SP0;" > /dev/ttyUSB0
Also its not important for the cv2hpgl module, but I want to test sending text to the plotter.
I'm using chiplotle now again and I think it might be helping with buffering, not sure.
chiplotle> plotter.write_file('myfile.hpgl')
So editing the hpgl file and running this from another terminal window (in the venv).
I think I will switch to using a python script with chiplotle imported into it. then the python script can take inputs from the esp and send them back out the other side as hpgl.