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title: octomode
language: en
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This document is opened in octomode.

Octomode is a collective editing space for PDF making that uses Etherpad, Paged.js, and Flask. It was first developed by Varia, building on the knowledge and practices of many designers and developers who work with and contribute to open-source and web-to-print approaches to making publications.

Please keep in mind:
    

    * This instance of octomode is hosted on the server of Hackers & Designer's and is subject to H&D's code of conduct: https://hackersanddesigners.nl/code-of-conduct  

    * The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone who knows the URL can read and change them.

    * The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private. 

    * We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on H&D's harddrives potentially indefinitely.

    * We might not be able to respond to pad retrieval requests.

    * H&D is a small collective with changing energies and availabilities, which might affect the availability of the pads 

    * If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups.


Octomode is for everyone who enjoys working side by side and looks for ways to escape, divest, and boycott  big tech companies that create unaffordable, inaccessible black box software and are complicit in the genocidal war on Palestine. 

How it works: 
pad: all content for the PDF are collected here (written in Markdown) 
stylesheet: all CSS rules for the PDF are collected here (written in CSS)
html: render the structure of the layout as a HTML (with PyPandoc)
layout: render the layout as a PDF, single pages (with Paged.js) 
imposition: sort pages so they can be printed double sided, folded in the middle an stapled.  
#MD?: markdown cheatsheet  
https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/octomode

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::: cover 

# Title
## Author

Everything else that goes on the cover

:::
    

::: main

# Title
## Author

Everything that goes into the zine

:::