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Montag, Juli 5th, 2010
I was recently browsing sample PDF pages from a major german, alleged typographically pretentious publisher in the humanities, as I noticed the use of wrong range-dashes and poorly justified paragraphs. Since the PDF was made with 3B2, this finally encouraged me, to compare TeX's abilities on a real-life ...
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Donnerstag, März 11th, 2010
Publishing online BibTeX references is not just matter of converting a .bib
file to XML/HTML. If there is a print (PDF) edition, two very important items
should be the same in both print and online versions:
same entries
same sorting
Further editing of the online references includes for example
abreviation of the author/editor names
inclundig and formatting ...
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Montag, Oktober 5th, 2009
Looking at my "JPod" paperback I was shocked to see that they used Arial instead of Helvetica. Of course this can't be intended, because Helvetica is the Coupland font. I suppose, somewhere on the workflow from the "graphic-designer" to the printing device the whole Arial-Helvetica-exchange-madness went berserk. And no one ...
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Dienstag, Juli 28th, 2009
If you try to \input a non-existing file, you get an error and if in interactive mode, you are prompting to type a new filename. But if you do the same with \include, no error occurs, just a little warning "No file ...". This behaviour, although documented, is sometimes ...
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Dienstag, Juli 28th, 2009
We had to produce a book catalogue from publisher's data. The layout was also predefined. We got a Word file with fields-like data:
#001 Springer, Anne; Münch, Karsten; Munz, Dietrich (Hg.)
#002 Sexualitäten
#003 Eine Publikation der DGPT
#004
#005 Bestellnr.: 854 #006 ISBN 978-3-89806-854-3
#007 2008 #006 455 Seiten #006 Gebunden
#008 ? (D) 39,90
#009 Die ...
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Freitag, Juli 17th, 2009
We had a book to set from a translated original. The index entries were taken also from the first book, translated and put in a list. So, in the first preview of the new book we set the index list as enumerate and asked the lector to mark the text ...
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Freitag, Juli 10th, 2009
As I mentioned in the previous post, we typesetted recently a german-albanian dictionary. It is an easy job with LaTeX. The most interestings and challenging points were:
create new phonetic glyphs from the base font
create albanian hyphenation patterns based on the turkish ones with some additions like not to break ...
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Dienstag, März 10th, 2009
For a dictionary project we used lots of phonetic glyphs. The most of them can be made from an ordinary font just by transforming (rotating, mirroring) a glyph or attach an accent to it. There is also the "ezh" character, and unfortunately the Minion fonts used didn't have it, but ...
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Mittwoch, Dezember 24th, 2008
The new catalogues arrived last week. More than 3000 pages from ca. 35 MB textual data typesetted with ConTeXt . Only the volume with the index (discussed here and here) is done fully automatically. The other three volumes required sometimes manual placement adjustment of the ads.
A sample spread ...
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Donnerstag, November 27th, 2008
Following my assumption in recent discussion on usent I modifed quick & dirty the mathptmx sources slanting the Symbol font not too much (0.120) and slanting the Times-Italic font back to match Symbol.
Below is a piece of testmath set that way. The whole PDF can be found here. Especially in ...
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