Archive for the ‘TeX’ Category
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 ...
Posted in Code, English, Examples, LaTeX, TeX, Typography, Umbruch | 4 Comments »
Montag, November 23rd, 2009
Die automatische Verwendung von Ligaturen ist in den gängigen DTP-Programmen, dank OpenType, eine Frage des Häkchen-Setzens geworden. Demzufolge gibt es neuerdings kaum ein Druckwerk, das ohne dieses "coole Feature" auskommt.
Der Haken an der Sache mit dem Häkchen liegt aber in der deutschen Rechtschreibung. Denn sie bestimmt, kurz gesagt, ...
Posted in Deutsch, Kvetch, TeX, Text Processing, Typografie | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Database Publishing, English, TeX, Text Processing, Work | No Comments »
Sonntag, Oktober 19th, 2008
After describing the publisher's demands on typesetting list entries in a previous article, here comes the TeX-code that does the job. It is really plain TeX, because the whole catalogue is set with ConTeXt, and since I'm not familiar with that package, all my macros had to be done on ...
Posted in Code, Database Publishing, English, Examples, TeX | 1 Comment »
Mittwoch, Oktober 15th, 2008
There was recent complaint on the german tex newsgroup, that the signs plus, minus, etc. in mathpazo, wich are taken from CM math fonts, are too big and don't match Palatino. I had the same complaint time ago from a copyeditor, and IIRC he complained about the big plus ...
Posted in English, Math Fonts, Math Typography, TeX | 2 Comments »
Freitag, Oktober 3rd, 2008
Typesetting index or other kind of lists and registers is an typical task for database publishing. An entry usually consists of a name and a number part conected with a dotted line. Typesetting this is quite simple:
But sometimes the name can be longer and don't fit on the line. ...
Posted in Database Publishing, English, TeX | 2 Comments »
Sonntag, September 28th, 2008
Via tex-d-l
Posted in Deutsch, TeX | 1 Comment »