proofreading

When I first started working with the Population Research Institute, their website relied on a proprietary content management system. Their site offered hundreds of articles, but they were full of hard-coded formatting like fonts, heading sizes, and colors (such as purple). Many hours of Perl and proofreading later, PRI had a new Joomla site with a clean, consistent look.

Joomla served them well, but fortunately, by the time they discovered the real constraints, I had discovered Drupal.

Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society: Alternatives to the Market and the State, by Race Mathews (Irving, TX: Distributist Review Press, 2009)

Jobs of Our Own is definitely the best history of distributism I've ever read. The author first published it in his native Australia, and after the book went out of print, the Distributist Review Press decided to print an American edition. Of course, Australian typography is a bit different (take everything you know about single and double quotes, and any nearby punctuation, and reverse it).

LaTeXScribus

Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson, by Bradley J. Birzer. (Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press, 2007.)

I'm rather proud of this book. Not as proud as the author, I imagine, but with 332 pages, over 1100 footnotes, and a final index of over 20 pages, Sanctifying the World was occasionally strenuous. Good thing I used LaTeX.