![]() It feels like a lot of the functionality of the Primer is already here, even if the curriculum and veracity of the responses is lacking. This model comes across as a creative and engaging partner, and I’m certain that we’ll be seeing systems aimed at children soon enough, for better or worse. If you try entering “ Tell me a story about a unicorn and a fairy” into ChatGPT you’ll almost certainly get something more entertaining and coherent than most adults could come up with on the fly. The recent advances with large language models have amazed me, and I do think we’re now a lot closer to an AI companion that could be useful for people of any age. I also think that a workable version of it now exists. It’s a powerful and appealing idea in a lot of ways, and offers a very compelling use case for conversational machine learning models. The Primer he’s referencing is an electronic book from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age novel, an AI tutor designed to educate and empower children, answering their questions and shaping their characters with stories and challenges. The alternate is to add extra space below the corresponding main-text paragraph IMHO that blank space will not look good.I love Brad DeLong’s writing, but I did a double take when he recently commented “ ‘A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer’ continues to recede into the future“. I suggest just letting the sidenote flow as it will. One concern is how to format a sidenote that is vertically taller than its corresponding main-text paragraph. ![]() Be careful not to re-position vertically if you accidentally move it up or down (mis-aligning from the corresponding text in the main, paragraph) you should see an override on the Sidenote Frame" Object Style re-apply w/clear overrides (Alt-Click). 1 inch), and position it in the space between the master-page guide and the outside page margin. Select the (inline) text frame, make it the proper width (e.g. The cut sidenote text frame will insert into the main text. Insert your text cursor in the main text at the beginning of the paragraph to which the sidenote corresponds. Text Frame Auto Size Options = "Height Only"Īnchored Object Options = Position: Custom, Relative To Spine (checked), Reference point leftpage=top/left, rightpage=top/right, Anchored Position Y-Relative To Line (Top Of Leading) and Y-Offset of approx 6pt (adjust as necessary depending on your fonts, leading, etc.)Ĭreate a text frame to hold your sidenote text.Īpply the "Sidenote Frame" Object Style to the frame.Īpply the "Sidenote" Paragraph Style to the sidenote text. Put a guideline on your master page for the inside edge of the sidenote textframe (approx 1 inch in from outside margin?).Ĭreate an Object Style call "Sidenote Frame" as follows: 1 inch, or whatever amount of horizontal space you will use for your sidenote, plus some padding. I came up with this method, which seems robust and flexible, keeping all elements live:Ĭreate a Paragraph Style called "Sidenote" as desired.Ĭreate at least one Paragraph Style for your main (body) text with a right indent of 1.25", e.g. Maybe someone know what is the way to make such layout without all this ugliness? In other words, if I add or remove text into the beige or blue, as the next step, I must manually (not automatically) change the height of the red one. I don't know a way to make red frame automatically resize it's height to match both heights of beige and blue. It also hard to insert text (I want to insert text into blue frame, but when I click it, the text is entered into the red one) We have a lot of anchored frames (it looks like something very unstable) This second (anchored-based) approach is also ugly, because: ![]() So we have 3 frames anchored to the first red: The second red frame is also anchored to the first red frame. (I should also note that beige and blue frames are not inline frames). The beige and blue are frames which are anchored to the red frame. ![]() For better understandability, I colored frames into different colors: Since I'm novice in InDesign, I'm not sure, but I think it's true.Īnother way is to use anchored frames, together with auto-resize height of frames. Why? Because, as I think, the document is not intented to be a large table, and so, there are may be some problems with images, nested tables, references and TOC. But as I understand, that may bring some problems in the future. I want to make it in InDesign, but I don't know what is a best way to do it.įrom my point of view, there are two ways, both very ugly. I want to find a way to create a table-like layout like this:Īs you can see, this example actually made in word-like application.
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