+1 :-) From: innovimax@gmail.com [mailto:innovimax@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Innovimax W3C Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 6:56 AM To: Liam Quin Cc: Jean Kaplansky; AUDRAIN LUC; Cramer, Dave; Tony Graham; public-digipub@w3.org Subject: Re: [latinreq] Paper sizes? Thank you Liam ! On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org<mailto: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<http://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 -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net<http://irc.sorcery.net> irc.gnome.org<http://irc.gnome.org> freenode/#xml The barefoot typographer -- Innovimax SARL Consulting, Training & XML Development 9, impasse des Orteaux 75020 Paris Tel : +33 9 52 475787 Fax : +33 1 4356 1746 http://www.innovimax.fr RCS Paris 488.018.631 SARL au capital de 10.000 €
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