Re: ConTEXt - produced book __ about typesetting, as an art, to print "Beautiful books"

* Re: ConTEXt - produced book __ about typesetting, as an art, to print "Beautiful books"
@ 2008-04-08 21:08 Giulio Bertellini
  2008-04-08 21:12 ` Andrea Valle
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From: Giulio Bertellini @ 2008-04-08 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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 <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch>
wrote:

> 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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