I'm tinkering with another way of formatting AARs that gets around Blogger's irritating quirk of displaying images in very low-res format unless you select them - which gets them away from the accompanying text. The formatting is aimed at smartphones though it works fine for PCs. Let me know if it works for you. Battle report here. (https://wargamingwithoutdice.blogspot.com/2024/06/second-battle-of-soissons-romans-win.html)
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I wonder what the sea will say next? A quote from Trenet's La Mer perhaps?
I think you're doing a good job showing counters on a 3D dressed table can deliver a pleasing effect but am worrying a bit about the cubes overshadowing the counters. Maybe try jacking the counters up with more card or thin ply so relative heights are closer?
Quote from: Erpingham on June 03, 2024, 05:27:03 PMI wonder what the sea will say next? A quote from Trenet's La Mer perhaps?
I don't know. What do you suggest?
Quote from: Erpingham on June 03, 2024, 05:27:03 PMI think you're doing a good job showing counters on a 3D dressed table can deliver a pleasing effect but am worrying a bit about the cubes overshadowing the counters. Maybe try jacking the counters up with more card or thin ply so relative heights are closer?
Oh, never mind the counters. They're just fill-ins for miniatures I don't have. The cubes seem discrete enough when miniatures are used, at least nobody has yet complained about them.
Quote from: Justin Swanton on June 03, 2024, 05:48:56 PMWhat do you suggest?
The perfect opportunity to listen to your favourite version - I know you like a ballad :) With your knowledge of French you'll soon pick out something.
Quote from: Justin Swanton on June 03, 2024, 05:48:56 PMThe cubes seem discrete enough when miniatures are used, at least nobody has yet complained about them.
I agree.
Quote from: Erpingham on June 03, 2024, 05:55:39 PMQuote from: Justin Swanton on June 03, 2024, 05:48:56 PMWhat do you suggest?
The perfect opportunity to listen to your favourite version - I know you like a ballad :) With your knowledge of French you'll soon pick out something.
Sur le pont de Soissons
On y lance on y lance
Sur le pont de Soissons
On y lance a tout le monde....
Some context (https://youtu.be/uJKfxtYAt0s?list=RDuJKfxtYAt0s).
In the past, I experimented using this approach to battle reporting with text embedded within game photos. My experience is that this loses a lot of flexibility and increases the risk of introducing typos into the corpus. I tend to go back and edit the text post-publication which is much more difficult with text embedded into a graphic. If this approach works for you then that is what matters. I found the new format difficult to read since both graphic and text were quite small. Embedding a lot of text into a graphic image tends to lose resolution in the conversion with the text looking a bit choppy to my eyes. Perhaps resolution is better on a phone but suffers on my laptop.
Quote from: Jon Freitag on June 03, 2024, 06:24:52 PMIn the past, I experimented using this approach to battle reporting with text embedded within game photos. My experience is that this loses a lot of flexibility and increases the risk of introducing typos into the corpus. I tend to go back and edit the text post-publication which is much more difficult with text embedded into a graphic. If this approach works for you then that it is what matters. I found the new format difficult to read since both graphic and text were quite small. Embedding a lot of text into a graphic image tends to lose resolution in the conversion with the text looking a bit choppy to my eyes. Perhaps resolution is better on a phone but suffers on my laptop.
It's better on a phone. Try it and tell me what you think. I do the layout in InDesign and export the pages as jpegs, so editing text is easy enough.
Quote from: Justin Swanton on June 03, 2024, 06:04:49 PMSur le pont de Soissons
On y lance on y lance
I was thinking more along the lines of
La mer
Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs
A des reflets d'argent, la mer
Quote from: Erpingham on June 03, 2024, 06:49:07 PMQuote from: Justin Swanton on June 03, 2024, 06:04:49 PMSur le pont de Soissons
On y lance on y lance
I was thinking more along the lines of
La mer
Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs
A des reflets d'argent, la mer
C'est beau, ça!