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Alan BRASLAU

22 Feb 2016 22 Feb '16

4:53 p.m.

I should add that the newsletter was apparently composed using Adobe InDesign! Alan

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Pablo Rodriguez

22 Feb 22 Feb

5:46 p.m.

New subject: Example of quality typesetting (sic.)

On 02/22/2016 05:53 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

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I should add that the newsletter was apparently composed using Adobe InDesign!

Good typography isn’t a software program, but a craft. (I guess... ) Your example scared me. My goodness! I saw a worse example from a publishing house that added small caps where they really hardened readability (including also capital letters for headings) and for some strange reason, last lines in some justified paragraphs were centered. Only to name two features. This book was published by a well-known academic press in Spain. They could handle Adobe InDesign, but I’m afraid they had no basic sensibility for typography. I regularly check books at bookstores and the vast majority of them don’t excel in typographic quality (of course, I my opinion). Most of them even fail in what I consider basic typographic rules. It is a pity, but typography is only noticed by everybody when it is awful. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

Alan BRASLAU

7:14 p.m.

New subject: Example of quality typesetting (sic.)

On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:46:36 +0100 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

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Good typography isn’t a software program, but a craft. (I guess... )

Your example scared me. My goodness!

I have tried \setupalign [nothyphenated,verytolerant,stretch] % hz? \definefontfeature [nokern] [kern=no,liga=no] \setff{nokern} and still I cannot produce anything near as horrible (without adding multiple non-breakable spaces and the like)! Alan

Hans Hagen

9:37 p.m.

New subject: Example of quality typesetting (sic.)

On 2/22/2016 8:14 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

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On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:46:36 +0100 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

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Good typography isn’t a software program, but a craft. (I guess... )

Your example scared me. My goodness!

I have tried

\setupalign [nothyphenated,verytolerant,stretch] % hz?

\definefontfeature [nokern] [kern=no,liga=no]

\setff{nokern}

and still I cannot produce anything near as horrible (without adding multiple non-breakable spaces and the like)!

\starttext \definedfont[Serif] % no kerns and ligatures and ... \hsize 10cm % kind of columns \emergencystretch10cm % make sure we can be very loose \looseness 6 % losen up the already not ideal paragraph \normallanguage0 % don't hyphenate \input tufte % some text \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Pablo Rodriguez

10:54 p.m.

New subject: Example of quality typesetting (sic.)

On 02/22/2016 08:14 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

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On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:46:36 +0100 Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

...
Good typography isn’t a software program, but a craft. (I guess... )

Your example scared me. My goodness!

I have tried

\setupalign [nothyphenated,verytolerant,stretch] % hz?

\definefontfeature [nokern] [kern=no,liga=no]

\setff{nokern}

and still I cannot produce anything near as horrible (without adding multiple non-breakable spaces and the like)!

Who knows what did the user to «create» such a typesetting... BTW, I remember that Erik Spiekermann stated that typography isn’t about the blank marks, but the space in between. (I think Jan Tschichold had a very simlilar concept [but I don’t remember where].) Well, it is clear that the «author» of that typesetting couldn’t handle the blank space. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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