Re: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book __ about typesetting, as an art, to print "Beautiful books"
Sitting in a Paris restaurant, equipped with WI/FI and after a couple of
wine glasses.
I really like your work. It would be interesting to see the sources and to
learn the tricks (your used).
The look is great.
Thanks to Hans for the beautiful gift to the World.
One final comment. I think the typesetting is fine, technically speaking,
but, overall, the spacing is too tight. It is not relaxing.
Readers should be more confortable. WHAT IS THE THINKING OF THIS COMMUNITY.
I am not a typesetter, but setting type, good typesetting is difficult to
express. It transcends words. It's about feelings and type.
Personally, I think that Prof.Dr.med. should be typeset differently. How can
we accept Prof, Dr. Med, with not spaces in between, perhaps thin spaces.
Congratulations, however.
Giulio Bertellini
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Jörg Hagmann
Dear list members,
My biochemistry textbook has been published by orell füssli as an UTB book. I would like to thank all the members of this list, and Hans in particular, for their help (acknowledgements in the "Thank you" section of the book as well).
You'll find a few sample pages under: www.ogbasel.ch/context.html (2.5MB)
Page and margin sizes prescribed by the publisher. The pages illustrate:
p. 7: The use of inmargin text. p. 79: a "vignette", in the margin and partially in the text area. p. 110: The height of some margin figures was large, necessitating manual adjustments. p. 145: A framed box and a wide table. The large number of enumerations, figures, frames etc. made some typographical sins inevitable (e.g. last line on this page). p. 155: textbody and margin completely filled p. 190: I include this page for Willi and Thomas p. 235: Some chapters end with what students really need to know (red background). This is the end of the chapter on nutrition p. 239: The "Toolbox" contains framed figures without a legend.
-- Prof.Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics Centre of Biomedicine, University of Basel Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565
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On 8 Apr 2008, at 23:08, Giulio Bertellini wrote:
Sitting in a Paris restaurant, equipped with WI/FI and after a couple of wine glasses.
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