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+---
+fontfamily: tgtermes
+title: "mcopy: Modular Optical Tool Platform for Small Gauge Motion Picture Film"
+documentclass: article
+author:
+- name: Matthew McWilliams
+  affiliation: sixteenmillimeter.com
+  email: hi@mmcwilliams.com
+abstract: |
+    Tools purpose-built for working with 16mm, Super8 and Regular8 film have not been produced commercially since the 
+    The mcopy project proposes a modular, open-source platform for building optical tools for small gauge analog moviefilm formats.
+    The platform can be used to assemble optical printers, digital transfer units and film recorders for digital images.
+bibliography: sources.bib
+csl: citation_style.csl
+---
+
+# Introduction
+
+# Desktop Application
+
+# Serial Protocol
+
+# Retrofitting Existing Hardware
+
+# New Hardware
+
+Retrofitting existing hardware was always intended as the first step to producing new hardware modules that could eventually completely replace all legacy machine parts.
+This approach is sometimes referred to as a "Ship of Theseus pattern"[@wiki-shipoftheseus] and in this application is, simply put: build machines using parts that people and organizations already have until total replacements can be designed.
+The practice of retrofitting hardware, in this case, required the kind of inspection that makes designing replacements possible: detailed measurements, documenting electrical diagrams, and review of sourced components.
+
+Two examples of this pattern that have materialized new modular components are the projector and gate designs.
+
+## References
+
+---
+refs: |
+   ::: {#refs}
+   :::
+...
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+  <info>
+    <title>Nature</title>
+    <id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/nature</id>
+    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/nature" rel="self"/>
+    <link href="http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/index.html#a5.4" rel="documentation"/>
+    <link href="http://www.nature.com/srep/publish/guidelines#references" rel="documentation"/>
+    <author>
+      <name>Michael Berkowitz</name>
+      <email>mberkowi@gmu.edu</email>
+    </author>
+    <category citation-format="numeric"/>
+    <category field="science"/>
+    <category field="generic-base"/>
+    <issn>0028-0836</issn>
+    <eissn>1476-4687</eissn>
+    <updated>2022-07-01T16:03:34+00:00</updated>
+    <rights license="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License</rights>
+  </info>
+  <macro name="title">
+    <choose>
+      <if type="bill book graphic legal_case legislation motion_picture report song" match="any">
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+      <if variable="volume" type="article dataset software" match="any"/>
+      <else-if variable="DOI">
+        <text variable="DOI" prefix="doi:"/>
+      </else-if>
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+        <text variable="DOI" prefix="https://doi.org/"/>
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+            <text variable="publisher-place"/>
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+        </group>
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+          <text variable="publisher"/>
+          <text macro="access-data"/>
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+        </group>
+      </else-if>
+      <else-if type="report webpage post post-weblog" match="any">
+        <group delimiter=" ">
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+        </group>
+      </else-if>
+      <else>
+        <date variable="issued" prefix="(" suffix=")">
+          <date-part name="year"/>
+        </date>
+      </else>
+    </choose>
+  </macro>
+  <macro name="container-title">
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+      </if>
+      <else>
+        <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
+      </else>
+    </choose>
+  </macro>
+  <macro name="editor">
+    <choose>
+      <if type="chapter paper-conference" match="any">
+        <names variable="editor" prefix="(" suffix=")">
+          <label form="short" suffix=" "/>
+          <name and="symbol" delimiter-precedes-last="never" initialize-with=". " name-as-sort-order="all"/>
+        </names>
+      </if>
+    </choose>
+  </macro>
+  <macro name="volume">
+    <choose>
+      <if type="article-journal" match="any">
+        <text variable="volume" font-weight="bold" suffix=","/>
+      </if>
+      <else>
+        <group delimiter=" ">
+          <label variable="volume" form="short"/>
+          <text variable="volume"/>
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+      </else>
+    </choose>
+  </macro>
+  <citation collapse="citation-number">
+    <sort>
+      <key variable="citation-number"/>
+    </sort>
+    <layout vertical-align="sup" delimiter=",">
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+  <bibliography et-al-min="6" et-al-use-first="1" second-field-align="flush" entry-spacing="0" line-spacing="2">
+    <layout suffix=".">
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diff --git a/docs/whitepaper/compile.sh b/docs/whitepaper/compile.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+pandoc README.md -o mcopy_whitepaper.pdf --filter pandoc-citeproc --pdf-engine=pdflatex --template=template.tex
+pandoc README.md -o index.html --filter pandoc-citeproc
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diff --git a/docs/whitepaper/sources.bib b/docs/whitepaper/sources.bib
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+@online{wiki-shipoftheseus,
+ author={Wikipedia},
+ title={Ship of Theseus},
+ url={https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus},
+ urldate={2025-02-20}
+}
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+\documentclass[10pt]{article}
+\usepackage[left=1.5in,
+            right=1.5in,
+            top=1in,
+            bottom=1.5in,]{geometry}
+\usepackage{authblk}
+\usepackage{setspace}
+\usepackage{hyperref}
+\usepackage{lmodern}  % For better font weights
+\usepackage{sectsty}  % For section formatting
+
+\newlength{\cslhangindent}
+\setlength{\cslhangindent}{1.5em}
+\newenvironment{cslreferences}%
+  {\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
+  \everypar{\setlength{\hangindent}{\cslhangindent}}\ignorespaces}%
+  {\par}
+
+% Handle conditionals
+$if(colorlinks)$
+\PassOptionsToPackage{usenames,dvipsnames}{color}
+$endif$
+
+% Handle fonts
+$if(fontfamily)$
+\usepackage[$for(fontfamilyoptions)$$fontfamilyoptions$$sep$,$endfor$]{$fontfamily$}
+$endif$
+
+% Make sections bolder and adjust spacing
+\sectionfont{\large\bfseries}
+\allsectionsfont{\bfseries}
+
+% Adjust line spacing
+\setstretch{1.1}  % Tighter line spacing
+
+\begin{document}
+
+% Thick line above title
+\noindent\rule{\textwidth}{5pt}
+
+% Title with tighter spacing and bolder font
+\begin{center}
+{\fontsize{17}{19}\selectfont\bfseries $title$\par}
+\end{center}
+
+% Thin line below title
+\noindent\rule{\textwidth}{1pt}
+
+% Authors with tighter spacing
+$for(author)$
+\begin{center}
+{\large\bfseries $author.name$\par}
+{\normalsize $author.affiliation$\par}
+{\normalsize\ttfamily $author.email$}
+\vspace{0.7em}
+\end{center}
+$endfor$
+
+\vspace{0.5em}
+{\begin{center}\large\bfseries Abstract\end{center}}
+
+\begin{quotation}
+{\selectfont $abstract$}
+\end{quotation}
+
+$body$
+
+\end{document}
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