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From: "William F. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lyx" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 7:33 AM
Subject: OT?:dynamic typography and references
There was some interesting discussion a while back here about
attempting better support for Peter Wilson's memoir class &c. Certainly
if you've not read his manual for it you should. I list it and some
other free texts on typography at:
http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-free-type.html
I really liked this website. I took your advice to Peter Wilson's
memoir class, a large interesting looking read, but the link changed:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf
Knuth's "The Metafont Book" and "The TexBook" are available as fr dvi.
I read that TMB used to be available as a free download from Knuth's site.
I've downloaded a bunch (10) of Knuth's video TeX tutorials for Beginners
and on Mathematical Writing using TeX. http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/
What has made "The Lord Of The Rings" the second best seller
to the Bible for the last 50 years. I find that a bit amazing.
Not the typography, or sales would've taken a dive in the 80s or so
when they started doing physically sumptuous but typographically poor
editions of _The Lord of the Rings_. I'm reading a hardcover which I
received as a gift a couple of years ago to my children and it's _not_
set as nicely as the Ballantine paperback editions I read as a youth.
I meant there is an apparent non-mechanical aspect of author planning.
Tolkien spent ten years writing LOTR and read in front of the Inklings;
my favorite is Owen Barfield, not the new movie Chronicles of Narnia
author thought I bet your kids will like it.
William
That seems like a good thing for your kids. I liked the movies too.
I can remember those vaguely; fantasy books with the first letter
of each word starting a new chapter ornately four lines large.
http://www.trhickman.com/ an interesting font from such a culprit
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The design of that website is a credit for whoever built it.
What a nice job title for the erudite: publicist
Fontinst looks a bit intimidating to me.
I looked at it in regard to converting Times New Roman fonts.
Again I appreciated your resource and thanks for the chat,
Stephen
