u/RusticBohemian

Looking to print my first book for binding. I was going to use Office Depot because my printer is not great, but I've heard about the importance of grain direction. Has anyone used Office Depot or another printer service? Have they been able to accommodate grain direction? Any suggestions for printing through a third party service?

My pages are 5.5 x 8.5 " - so standard printer paper.

Latin is famously free in its word order, but that's not quite the same as saying that all grammatically correct word order choices would be considered "not weird."

For instance, ending with est seems most common: Hodie dies Veneris est

And when replying, it's common to put the est at the beginning: Est dies Lunae

But then we've got some less usual choices:

"Iovis est dies", et, "Veneris dies est hodie"

My understanding is that there's nothing technically wrong with these two. But it seems like classical authors wouldn't write either. Maybe unless they wanted to really emphasize Jupiter's day? Or maybe as part of a poem?

So how should we be thinking about word order? Is it technically free but constrained by convention? Or how would you think about it?

He wrote an epic poem about the Ottoman invasions of the Ragusan Republic called De Epidauro. Curious if we have any fans of his work here and if he's worth a read.