Talk:Interview with Norton Cabal

Formatting
Anybody have any formatting tips for prettying up interview format? --Popefauvexxiii 08:11, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

The version reproduced in the physical publication (ISBN 1-55950-040-9) is set in monospace (or, well, probably not set at all, but typed on a typewriter and reproduced photolitographically or similar) and on many lines of the prose preceding the actual "Interview" have additional spacing
 * to indent the first line of each paragraph
 * (after fullstops) probably for following American English typewriter punctuation spacing conventions
 * (between words) to achieve full justification (left and right ends of the lines lining up).

Sample (reproduced best I can by just looking at the print):

It has  been  ten  years  since  I  met  the mysterious Malaclypse the  Younger. I was  free  lancing  for   the underground papers  and  went  by  POEE  Head Temple at 555 Battery Street to try for an interview. I found  him  in the Temple PO Box busy wrapping up the new Fourth Edition of Principia. He seemed impatient  with me, insisting  that  he didn't have the time or inclination for foolish questions from reporters. Undaunted, I  burst out with  questions like whether he preferred Panama Red or Acapulco Gold and how the fuck did we manage to  fit  inside of a  tiny post office box and other things apropos a naive young semiliterate dropout hippy writer. He asked me if  I wanted to drop mescaline and fuck all night and said he knew how to turn himself into a unicorn and there might be  room for a  tiny  interview  on  the cover of the Principia if I wanted to work for the Greater  Poop so I said sure, OK, I've never dropped mescaline in a post office box before.

The interview itself also has additional spacing to
 * have the beginning of most quotes (after "&lt;name>:") line up
 * indent subsequent lines of quotes

Sample (reproduced best I can by just looking at the print):

Malik:    [Anarchy] is also standing up and proceeding forward, fantasy rule or not. The condition is the same. Occupant: Brother needs some wine! Malik:    We have had this argument before, Reverend Doctor Brother. But wine before platitudes, fill it up. Gypsie [to Hill]: And pacifism? Hill:     I'm not sure I ever was one. Mal² was not, Malik was. Personally I accepted self defense yet I could never reconcile that with the ideal. I finally gave up    on that one too. Actually I just gave up on idealism. Ignotius: Idealism lives with rules. Realism lives with rocks. Hill:     Yeah. I get along better with rocks. Malik:    Mal² once told me that pacifism was a dilemma. If everybody was a pacifist then everything would be    perfect. But nobody is going to be a pacifist unless I    am first. But if I am and somebody else is not, then I    get screwed. He said that there were five choices under that circumstance. The first was napalming farmers and the second was executing your parents. The third was hypocrisy, the fourth was cowardice, and the fifth was to swallow the dilemma. Zenarchists are trained in    dilemma swallowing.

Should the transcript here on Wikisource try to reproduce some or all of these formatting choices / aspects?

--Das-g (talk) 11:04, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Proofreading
I've proofread the text comparing with a physical copy of the Loompanics edition (ISBN 1-55950-040-9) and made some changes accordingly. However, I'm unsure whether I was able to spot all discrepancies, and thus whether I should change the "Level of progress" in be textinfo box above (which currently says "Looked over and formatted (underlining, footnotes, special characters), looks fine ") and remote the "Notes" entry (which currently says "If anyone has a physical copy of this edition, please proofread").

I've added ISBN 1-55950-040-9 to the "Source" field and myself in the "Proofreaders" field of the box. Am I doing this correctly? (I'm new to editing Wikisource.)

--Das-g (talk) 10:04, 21 May 2022 (UTC)