Re: [latinreq] Paper sizes?

Thank you Liam !


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 23:24 +0530, Jean Kaplansky wrote:
> > Google books says no ebook exists for Bringhurst.
>
> Yes, get the printed book.
>
> Reading an ebook on print typography is like learning to ride a bicycle
> by eating circular foods :-)
>
> > Most of the typography “canon” has not yet made it to eBookLandia.
> >
> > This is a modern day typography book that _is_ available as an eBook
> > (albeit page replica):
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Manual-Typography-Setting-Perfect-ebook/dp/B006X73AJW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1389117053&sr=1-1&keywords=Jim+Felici
>
> Yes, that's a good book. Also Mitchell & Wightman's Book Typography.
>
>
> > And I found what the typophile.com refers to as the typography
> > “triumvirate” here: http://typophile.com/node/15349 (Bringhurst is the
> > first title on the list)
>
> The second two of these are rather lower-level and I think perhaps a
> little dated, but yes if you want to be a typeface guru go for them :-)
> also the O'Reilly book on Fonts & Encodings (the Linux/X11 section is
> hopeless but the rest is very useful).
>
> On page ratios, The Form of the Book (Tschichold) is the source that
> Robert Bringhurst used.
>
> "Ready to Print" (Kristina Nickel) is very practical although it may be
> a little too tied to specific tools such as InDesign and PhotoShop (and
> has some errors in unit conversion). But it has an intro by Eric
> Spiekermann and his son Dylan.
>
> On paper sizes, it might be more useful to say whether (say) HTML and/or
> CSS should be able to link to JDF in some standard way to specify
> imposition, trimming, binding, finishing.
>
> Best,
>
> Liam
>
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