Archive for the ‘Typography’ 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 ...
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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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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 ...
Posted in English, Examples, LaTeX, Text Processing, Typography, Work | 4 Comments »
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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Mittwoch, Oktober 15th, 2008
This is an example page from Ohm's work. It has been published 1827 and reprintend in 1989.
Some commentars: The math bin operators like "+", "-", "= " are as espected big sized; the space around the relaton ":" are also (es espected by me) relative big (I plan an article ...
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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 ...
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