Greetings,
It has been much too long since I updated on the project which started this blog in the first place, so for those who are keeping track I have some information for you. There is also an extra bit of what I have been doing which is related to the overall project, mostly, but also related to other bits and pieces.
So, in my previous I indicated that version 2 of both the modern and Elizabethan forms of my fencing manual had been completed. I sent these off to an interested party to have a read of them. As expected there was some feedback about this and where I was going with it. The result of this was that I have completed a version 3 of the modern version. This was for more clarity in what was being spoken about and for more precision, less wordy so to speak. This was also a bit more modernising of the text also.
I have sent this off again to some interested people for review of the text, one for how it reads and the other for content to make sure that I have all my fencing bits and pieces all written properly and that there are no horrible breaches of fencing theory. Hopefully this means that there will be a final minor edit if nothing else just to polish a bit. Yes, it means that the end is in sight. The only real complication to this would be that it may require some changes in the Elizabethan version.
With this in sight there is the question of how this will be all made public when it is all completed. My initial thought was to simply give access to a .pdf or similar of the text for free. However, after some long thought and discussion with various people, I have made a decision that I will see if I can get it published in a hard-copy. This will more than likely be self-published. I think that this will give the best presentation of the text in the end.
In other news I have been slowly transcribing from the .pdf version of the 1595 version of Giacomo di Grassi's His True Art of Defence. Initially this was for my own purposes and convenience. It is much easier to cut and paste from a Word document than it is to troll through the .pdf every time that I needed a quote. I am not sure at this stage what I will be doing with this once it is finished. Various pieces of it has appeared on my fencing blog over the past months, however I think it should also be presented complete. Exactly how I will be doing this is something I am still thinking about. I have also considered changing it all into Modern English for people's convenience, however once again this is just a proposal with much thought required.
So this is what has been happening. The end is in sight. I do not think that this will be the end of this blog however, as I feel that there will be other pertinent subjects which will arise. Just have to wait and see for a lot of it I suppose.
Cheers,
Henry.
