Re: Does the Crystal Goblet apply?

On Wed, January 1, 2014 9:42 pm, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 19:58 +0000, Tony Graham wrote:
>> I received a copy of the 1937 pamphlet of "Printing Should Be
>> Invisible" by Beatrice Warde [1] yesterday.  I got it to see how well
>> it lived up to the ideals of its text.  Based on the title alone, it
>> should have been 12 blank pages.
> Hah! And a wineglass should be empty? I don't think that's the right
> idea :-)
>
>>   Based on what is says in the text, I
>> shouldn't be able to remember anything about the formatting, only the
>> words, but the placement of the page numbers struck me as odd on first
>> reading (though I've since come up with a rationalisation for their
>> position).
>
> Does your copy have the original formatting? The essay was widely
> reprinted. I don't remember where the page numbers were now, it's been
> too long :)

https://inasmuch.as/2014/01/07/printing-should-be-invisible/

Regards,


Tony.

Received on Wednesday, 8 January 2014 09:17:51 UTC