Hi! I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on. Personally, I can recommend Donald E. Knuth's "The TeXbook" and also his book on MetaFont. I am thinking of getting "The Complete Manual of Typography" by James Felici, which seems to be a very good book on the subject. I have also been looking for books by Hermann Zapf, but most seem to be out of print and very, very expensive where available; anyone know if they are worth their steep prices? nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}
Am 28.11.2004 um 20:24 schrieb Nikolai Weibull:
I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on.
If you can read german you should have a look at "Lesetypographie" by Hans Peter Willberg & Friedrich Forssman, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz. And nearly every other book by this authors and their publisher (www.typographie.de)... ;-) Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 28.11.2004 um 20:24 schrieb Nikolai Weibull:
I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on.
If you can read german you should have a look at "Lesetypographie" by Hans Peter Willberg & Friedrich Forssman, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz. And nearly every other book by this authors and their publisher (www.typographie.de)... ;-)
a nice book indeed; it's still on my list to check all the xamples and make some howto (well, could be a wiki effort) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Nikolai Weibull said this at Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:24:18 +0100:
I am thinking of getting "The Complete Manual of Typography" by James Felici, which seems to be a very good book on the subject.
I'm a fan of Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style." I know some people don't think much of it, but I still learn something new whenever I return to it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0881791326 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
I have also been looking for books by Hermann Zapf, but most seem to be out of print and very, very expensive where available; anyone know if they are worth their steep prices? nikolai
His books (and fonts) are real great! I wish i had them all. Keep in mind that typography is not per definition the same as typesetting; for instance his book covers and posters are good examples of 'playing with type', which is not what tex is often used for Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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I have also been looking for books by Hermann Zapf, but most seem to be out of print and very, very expensive where available; anyone know if they are worth their steep prices?
His books (and fonts) are real great! I wish i had them all.
Yeah, I've seen his fonts, but not his books ;-)
Keep in mind that typography is not per definition the same as typesetting; for instance his book covers and posters are good examples of 'playing with type', which is not what tex is often used for
Yeah, I was not only interested in books on typefaces, but also on typesetting. I'm a person who judges a book, not by its cover, but by its typography and typesetting. nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Hi!
I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on.
i have a bunch but i have to admit that i'm more a browser than a reader; it's on my to do list to make a list of them maybe we can compile a nice list of books with 'readers comments'; if someone collects them i can turn them into a (nice looking) document; it would also make a nice test for bibtex Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
This would be very nice! In the case this is to happen, I would suggest to add the following tow books to the list: Jan Tschichold. Ausgew\"ahlte Aufs\"atze \"uber die Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie. Birkh\"auser Verlag Basel 2. Auflage. ISBN-3-7643-1946-1 Some of the articles contained in this book, which is in German, are translated into Ducht and English. Phil Baines & Adnrew Haslam. Type & typography.Laurence King Publishing Ltd London. 2002 ISBN-1-85669-244-2. Apparently there is a new publication "Thinking with type" by Ellen Lupton at Princeton Architectural Press. 2004. http://www.papress.com/bookpage.tpl?isbn=1568984480 and http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/ A small book (156 p. 20 USD) Willi h h extern wrote:
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Hi!
I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on.
i have a bunch but i have to admit that i'm more a browser than a reader; it's on my to do list to make a list of them
maybe we can compile a nice list of books with 'readers comments'; if someone collects them i can turn them into a (nice looking) document; it would also make a nice test for bibtex
Hans
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