From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17295 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: h h extern Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Recommended Books on Typesetting Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:12:25 +0100 Message-ID: <41AA3F39.1010804@wxs.nl> References: <20041128192418.GA30208@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101676457 20387 80.91.229.6 (28 Nov 2004 21:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Nov 28 22:14:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CYWN2-0008Sz-00 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:14:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8EC127C5; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:14:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19374-01; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:14:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6097B127D6; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:12:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9014F127D6 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:12:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19109-05 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:12:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DB8127C5 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:12:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iASLCJoZ008219 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:12:19 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id ADF2117C62; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:12:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [10.100.1.1]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3E517B07 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:12:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20041128192418.GA30208@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/540/Tue Oct 19 14:59:23 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17295 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17295 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------