February 09, 2005
'Communique' Publishes Compilation Of Same-Sex Marriage Coverage
Marks Relaunch Of PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE Press
Very, very early this morning (see the dateline), Portland Communique published a compilation of its items on same-sex marriage from a period covering eleven months in 2004.
This 300+ page volume marks the official relaunch of PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE Press (via Lulu), through which we've made available the first two years of this site in a series of eight volumes.
Yes, we understand that few beyond the masochistic would have some compulsion to run out and purchase all eight volumes. But they are there nonetheless.
That said, we do think that there may be some demand, both from here in Oregon and elsewhere, of a print record of our coverage of the same-sex marriage controversy which erupted early last year. Disagreement though there is about the ways in which we contextualized the story or weighed in with our own perspectives, it easily was the single biggest story we covered last year. As such, if we were going to relaunch PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE Press, it deserved a volume of its own.
(At some point in the near future, we also will be adding a volume containing our coverage of the 2005 Mayoral race.)
As we alluded to previously, for this print publication endeavor, much the same process we're using to make print-friendly versions of all the entries here was used to generate the content dumps from each month's archives here. We point that out again so we can mention that in each volume, each entry's hyperlinks are converted into easily-referenced footnotes -- something that did not exist in prior attempts to print editions of Portland Communique.
A final note, without getting too technical, in order to give credit where credit is due.
The process through which Portland Communique content was rendered into a form ready to upload and publish includes the use of the following products, without which the entire project would have been vastly more complicated: Movable Type (content management), Collect Plugin (footnotes), Combine PDFs, PdfCompress (smaller files), and the Opera Web Browser (proper support for CSS page breaks).