- From: Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:17:28 -0000 (GMT)
- To: public-ppl@w3.org
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.
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