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William wrote:I had not known that before.
So does that mean no royalty for the author of the copies of a book sent for Legal Deposit?
William wrote:Or for those copies of the book sent free to newspapers in the hope of a review being written and published?
Royalties are not calculated according to the number of copies distributed, but rather as a percentage of sales receipts, so there are no royalties payable on free copies.
William wrote:Alfred wrote:William wrote:Copilot wrote a song for me
I presume that Copilot is currently only capable of writing lyrics, not music.
Well, at one stage Copilot output the following.
> Would you like help setting these to music — chord progressions, melody ideas, or even a mock-up of how they might sound?
As it happened I requested a painting, so I don't know about the music these days at the moment.
Thank you.
William wrote:Well, I had written three spangleware songs.
I added the second one to the same Copilot session and Copilot offered to write some more and I saw a line in one of them that produced an idea and, upon my requests, Copilot wrote a song for me and produced a picture as well.
I note that you have deftly sidestepped my question:
Alfred wrote:Do you really want to dilute a discussion about spangleware by splitting it between two threads, William? Your earlier thread is here.
William wrote:Copilot wrote a song for me
I presume that Copilot is currently only capable of writing lyrics, not music.
Alfred wrote:Alfred wrote:William wrote:Is the ferry molar powered?
LOL. You’re really getting your teeth into this, aren’t you!
I suppose it would be pertinent to ask whether the ferry always follows the same ‘root’.
German-speaking passengers might wonder whether they can book by Email.
Alfred wrote:William wrote:KarenPL wrote:
Is the ferry molar powered?
LOL. You’re really getting your teeth into this, aren’t you!
I suppose it would be pertinent to ask whether the ferry always follows the same ‘root’.
William wrote:KarenPL wrote:
Is the ferry molar powered?
LOL. You’re really getting your teeth into this, aren’t you!
William wrote:I have thought of how this song might be the first of a genre of spangleware
Do you really want to dilute a discussion about spangleware by splitting it between two threads, William? Your earlier thread is here.
KarenPL wrote:
I’m reminded of a cousin’s visit to Scotland more than a half a century ago. He and a friend were in the US Navy, and they wanted to visit the US naval base here, but when he asked one of the locals “Where do we catch the Dunoon ferry?” the answer (accompanied by an outstretched arm with a pointing finger) was something like “Oh, you just missed her! She flew over that way.”
William wrote:I have thought of how this song might be the first of a genre of spangleware (using a word I have coined for the purpose) where a work is copyright yet can be performed publicly free of royalty, yet a royalty is payable if the song is recorded.
As far as I’m aware, royalties on audio recordings are (like royalties on books) only payable when copies are sold, so the mere recording of a song performance wouldn’t trigger the payment of a royalty.
You might want to consider renaming the Comic Sands hotel. ‘Comic Sands’ is part of George Takei’s Oh Myyy family.
Mobiusman wrote:Thanks for your expert help on this Alfred. I think I see where I can go with this now.
You’re welcome. Let us know how you get on!
Pilotlon wrote:'Footers'...apparently nobody knows his real name. Pretty quiet and shy, but always seems to have the last word.
That one is crying out for a ‘Headers’ soccer counterpart.
Pilotlon wrote:
Love it!
KarenPL wrote:I'm in two minds whether to use CA2 or DrawPlus to make up a floor plan for our future house move. I want to have our many bookcases parked directly in the right spot to make things easier for us, so this is a way of figuring things out beforehand.
Given the relative stability of DrawPlus, I’d love to hear a solid argument in favour of using CA2 instead! After all, DSA (predecessor of CA) was based on DrawPlus. I can’t imagine that you’d need CA features such as stencils or ‘intelligent’ frames for a floor plan.
Pilotlon wrote:....and meet T.S. Owliet
Alfred wrote:This kind of comment always annoys me a little
Another irritating comment from WordleBot is
WordleBot wrote:There was only one possible solution left — and this wasn’t it. (XXXXX is a valid guess, but it’s unlikely to be a solution based on what I’ve learned from playing Wordle.)
It should say “There was only one likely solution left”, not “There was only one possible solution left”.
Alfred wrote:WordleBot seemed favo(u)rably impressed
This kind of comment always annoys me a little:
WordleBot wrote:Unfortunately, XXXXX wasn’t the right answer this time. And you’ve narrowed it down to one possible solution.
It should say “Unfortunately, XXXXX wasn’t the right answer this time, but you’ve narrowed it down to one possible solution.”
Doing that just once is quite a feat in itself, Geoff! Doing it twice, even over a large number of games, is a record to be proud of, but I don’t know how to calculate the probability of doing it twice and winning the lottery! Did you use a different word the first time around?
Anyway, I used up nearly all of my guesses when playing the official NYT version of the game this morning, so I don’t think I’m particularly well placed to advise you. Having said that, WordleBot seemed favo(u)rably impressed:
WordleBot wrote:Wordle 1,493 5/6*
WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 26/99
BookPlus is included in PagePlus X9, but it’s really aimed at multi-author books with lots of illustrations: the official Affinity workbooks were prepared in PPX9, using BookPlus to bring together the work of several contributors. For a 120-page book with a single author you shouldn’t need it, especially not on a modern PC with a decent amount of available hard drive space and RAM, even if your book is heavily illustrated.
The ‘Facing Pages’ layout option in PP gives you mirrored margins by default, allowing for an inner (gutter) margin which is larger than the outer margin.
I see that there are two US pronouns shown in IPA on that page, but (presumably because one is the same as the UK version) they only include an audio sample for the one that differs.
UK /ˈkɑː.ki/ US /ˈkæ.ki/ /ˈkɑː.ki/
So the UK pronunciation uses /ɑː/ (a long /ɑ/) whereas the typical US pronunciation uses /æ/, which I understand to be articulated further forward.
William wrote:Alfred wrote:An unrelentingly English English joke, that one! It doesn’t work with the rhotic accents that are commonly found in my neck of the woods.
In your neck of the woods does khaki rhyme with tacky?
No, I don’t think the vowel sound is the same in those two words. However, the point is that the joke depends on the ‘intrusive r’ that typically occurs in English as spoken south of the border but not in English as spoken in Central Scotland: there’s generally a distinction here between ‘kah-kee’ and ‘kar-kee’.
KarenPL wrote:
An unrelentingly English English joke, that one! It doesn’t work with the rhotic accents that are commonly found in my neck of the woods.
Oh, OK, so I didn’t remember correctly! However, I’m now curious as to what happened to the ‘d’ in ‘audio’ when you quoted my post.
William wrote:I seem to remember that to get it to play at that time that one needed to download it to local storage and then open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader and then click inside the square..
I seem to remember that it wasn’t as straightforward as it should have been, but I couldn’t have told you the details.
If I remember correctly, you recorded yourself singing that song and posted the resultant audio file to the old Serif Forums.
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