SI28/Publication

This page documents the process we followed to create the final publication of Special Issue 28, and it will be included in the publication itself. Woooooo

Protocol

• Include what ought not be printed in <div class=noprint></div>
• The Projects SI 28 page will not be printed, and it will contain just brief intro and description of each project, with a link to the dedicated project page.
• If parts of other pages appear or are transcluded, avoid repetitions: do not print them. E.g. if there is a writing machine in a radio show, only write a short explanation and then transclude the page of the wiring machine within the noprint div.
• Links:
  • Do not write the full URL in the text unless we want it to be printed
  • Keep colour change
• Add here other decisions made

Workflow

As decided in the Prototyping class of the 2^nd December 2025:

(messy graphviz source code can be found here)

Approach

Dirty wiki scraping based on full consensus while allowing anarchy!

Stylesheets

• The global, shared CSS we are all going to be using for all pages is Amazine.css. We decide together how it should be, following the #Protocol.
• Each of us can include their own stylesheet, on top of Amazine.css

make-amazine.sh

1. create a local folder called amazine: mkdir amazine
2. move inside this folder: cd amazine
3. inside this folder, make a bash script with the name make-amazine.sh: nano make-amazine.sh
4. inside this script, change the wiki page links to the one you want to work with
5. create and edit your own CSS file: nano mypage.css
6. then run the bash script: bash make-amazine.sh
7. check if this generated a pdf!

# --------- CSS
# download Amazine.css from the wiki to my local folder
curl 'https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Amazine.css?action=raw' -o Amazine.css

# --------- HTML
# (OPTIONAL) download local copy of the wiki page as HTML file
# curl 'https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Writing_Machines%E2%80%93Protocols%E2%80%93Feedback?action=render' -o  specialissuepage.html
# wget -E -k -p -l 1 'https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Writing_Machines%E2%80%93Protocols%E2%80%93Feedback?action=render'

# --------- PDF
# generate a PDF with weasyprint, for each of your wiki pages
weasyprint -s Amazine.css -s mypage.css 'https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/mypage?action=render' mypage.pdf

Content

Important

Wikipage titles: Title listed here should be used for wiki page + PDF + CSS.
File names: Name in () is person responsible for the PDF and CSS.

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• Colophon (Barbara)
• Introduction (Lea)
• Content (Youjung)
• Writing-Machines
  • Writing-Machines/Arnhem (Phillip)
  • Writing-Machines/Beatles (Ema)
  • Writing-Machines/Death-Core-Writing-Machine (Ema)
  • Writing-Machines/Glyphica (Lea)
  • Writing-Machines/Mud-Cell-Poem (Youjung)
  • Writing-Machines/Poetry-Generator (Youjung)
  • Writing-Machines/Reading-and-Interpreting-a-Dotmatrixs-Scoring (Robin)
  • Writing-Machines/Walking (Lea)
  • Writing-Machines/State-Machines (KIKI)
• Public-Event
  • Public-Event/A-story-in-a-story-in-a-story (Barbs)
  • Public-Event/Gesture-Machine (Valentin)
  • Public-Event/The-Metathinking-Metamachine (Tommi)
  • Public-Event/The-Calm-Machine (Sibyl, Lea)
  • Public-Event/Writing-Machine-Ensemble (Ema, Daan, Robin)
  • Public-Event/Water-Vessel:Dwelling-in-Temporality (Soda)
  • Public-Event/Marginalia (Luca)
  • Public-Event/The-Love-Machine (Phillip)
• Radio-Shows
  • Radio-Show/Week1 (Robin)
  • Radio-Show/Week2 (Daan)
  • Radio-Show/Week3 (Ema)
  • Radio-Show/Week4 (Soda)
  • Radio-Show/Week5 (Lea)
  • Radio-Show/Week6 (Daan)
  • Radio-Show/Week7 (Youjung)
  • Radio-Show/Week8 (Tommi)
• Glossary (Valentin)

Front + back cover design (Kiki)