✨ Emails referring to content
Mairi Dupar | Aug 18, 2024, 7:02 PM (12 days ago) |
Dear Ian,
I have uploaded an entire training manual into the Googledrive: POWER Project Malawi's illustrations for Chapter 5_credit POWER - Google Drive. The reason is, I don’t have the software available to extract the images I want to illustrate part of Chapter 5. But, I am hoping you will manage to extract the desired images from this pdf, and then pivot the images from portrait to landscape aspect.
In the document, which is called ‘POWER Household Training Manual’, I am wondering if you can:
- Extract the image of the table on page 119, turn it to landscape, and caption the image: ‘Financial visioning exercise, from the POWER, Malawi training manual © POWER 2024’.
- Extract one or several separate images of the ‘Resource’ and ‘Income’ cards on pages 130 onwards of the manual, and caption the related images: ‘Cards from the POWER, Malawi training manual to support household discussions on prioritising resource use and income streams © POWER 2024’. (NB, Ian, There are more resource and income pictures than we can use and I like them all, I was having a hard time choosing which ones to use! So perhaps just extract a few and see what fits with our aesthetic?)
In another note, I have uploaded some Creative Commons figures from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2023, in the Chapter 1 folder In-chapter images/graphs/vids - Google Drive. In my Word manuscript, which you will receive for Chapter 1 soon, I am just instructing you that I find the IPCC’s titles for these figures excessively long – in my Word doc, I will give shorter titles. Then, we can put the IPCC’s longer text in a caption below each one. My Word doc will make that clear hopefully. Note that for the IPCC figure with the bar graphs (a) and (b) on the top, we only want (a) and (b), we’ll be needing you to chop off (c) and (d) on the bottom of the figure. Not because they’re unhelpful, but because we don’t want to overwhelm our readers with too many stats.
Thanks and best wishes, Mairi
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From: Mairi Dupar
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2024 8:57 AM
To: Ian Parsons <ian@digital.matogen.com>
Subject: Updates from my end
Hi Ian
I hope you are very well.
Just to give you an update from my end: I pretty much finished the introductory chapters 1 and 2 but the copy editor was away last week and I was hoping to have her look over those two chapters before sending to you to lay out.
I unfortunately received a wadge more material from the contributing projects (all months later than the deadline!) last week also, so I’ve been determinedly trying to read through the hundreds of pages and slot their material in where I can in the big substantive chapters 4 and 5. This means that I still have some editorial smoothing to do today and tomorrow morning on chapters 4 and 5 – hopefully they will be ready to hand over to the copy editor if/when she gets done with chapters 1 and 2, so that there will then be a seamless pipeline of words and graphics coming over to you. The issue arising with chapter 5 is that – with the deluge of new material arriving – I have had to add quite a few more sub-sections than were in my original outline. Chapter 5 is now starting to be a very long chapter of ‘barriers and strategies’; but I hope and expect that we can capitalize on the benefits of html to do great signposting and hyperlinking to enable the reader to dip in and out as they wish.
I should also note that, contrary to my expectation, much of the material I received from projects last week for inclusion in Chapter 5 is not yet published externally so annoyingly we cannot hyperlink it (or perhaps we can only hyperlink over the course of months but we need an interim solution). I am not very keen on footnotes for an html-based book, although we had them in Voices in a limited fashion, they are not optimal. But perhaps we will need to tolerate footnotes in these instances to cite internal-only sources. At any rate, I have marked these all in the manuscript. This really is an issue only for chapters 4 and 5 because the earlier chapters are all based on materials that can be hyperlinked.
I haven’t managed to write Chapter 6 on ‘noone left behind’ as I just haven’t received enough material to make it fly, yet, so honestly, Ian, that chapter is in question. I don’t want the other chapters to be so substantive then Chapter 6 is a damp squib. I am now looking at whether I make that just a mini section within Chapter 5 instead. The originally-numbered Chapter 7 is just going to be a simple round-up of conclusions and recommendations so I’ll do that at the end; I had also written the draft Exec Summary a while ago but it’s having to change now with the new material I received, so I am just going to have to rewrite it too.
The upshot is that I will sort out the copy editing situation today and get back in touch with you re timings for submitting the next pieces, but I do expect to finish submitting all words and pictures this week.
How are things going at your side?
Best wishes, Mairi
Mairi Dupar | Wed, Aug 28, 11:16 AM (2 days ago) | |
to me, Ian, emma, Rosie
Dear Ian and Robyn
Find attached Chapter 5 for layout. This is the longest chapter.
Chapter 6 will be extremely short and simple (similar to chapter 4) and follows shortly by lunchtime to drop in the template.
No, the pdf will not be ready in Sept, for the launch, only ready in late October and the Sp, Fr versions of the pdf ready in November.
Robyn and Ian, I will urgently need to circulate the laid-out website in DRAFT to the project contributors for approval and corrections. Even if this means breaking my holiday. This is because they were ultra late in submitting content, meaning I was squeezed on writing and did not have an opportunity for them to review the draft content earlier.
- Please can you tell me today when the draft will be ready to circulate for the project approvers. Is end of this week possible?
- Please can you also confirm that by the time I return full time to the desk on 4th Sept evening / 5th Sept morning, I can have access to the back end of the website to input small sentence-level edits from our project approvers? Any tweaks to pictures/javascript I would naturally leave to you.
Best wishes, Mairi
this feels like she does not want footnotes Ian? Shared on the 19th of August. Not sure if there's more about this later but I am unsure about the footnotes
I should also note that, contrary to my expectation, much of the material I received from projects last week for inclusion in Chapter 5 is not yet published externally so annoyingly we cannot hyperlink it (or perhaps we can only hyperlink over the course of months but we need an interim solution). I am not very keen on footnotes for an html-based book, although we had them in Voices in a limited fashion, they are not optimal. But perhaps we will need to tolerate footnotes in these instances to cite internal-only sources. At any rate, I have marked these all in the manuscript. This really is an issue only for chapters 4 and 5 because the earlier chapters are all based on materials that can be hyperlinked.