From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17312 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Willi Egger Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Recommended Books on Typesetting Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:40:43 +0100 Message-ID: <41AB510B.7090706@boede.nl> References: <20041128192418.GA30208@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> <41AA4000.6040700@wxs.nl> 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 1101747965 16077 80.91.229.6 (29 Nov 2004 17:06:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 29 18:05:58 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 1CYoa1-00035C-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:40:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8C4127B3; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:40:48 +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 26747-06; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:40:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67E7127A6; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:40:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4198E127A6 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:40:44 +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 26753-04 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:40:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (unknown [194.109.24.21]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B474127A3 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:40:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.1] (a80-126-172-1.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.126.172.1]) by smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iATGegQc077316 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:40:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from w.egger@boede.nl) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <41AA4000.6040700@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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:17312 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17312 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context