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- From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
- Subject: Paper and fonts (was Re: TeX In Practice)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.131542.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
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- Date: 25 Aug 92 13:15:42 PDT
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- In article <l9kqsnINN7kb@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug24.211117.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
-
- > |> Someone tell Victor not to use
- > |> textured paper with Baskerville or any other Modern. Doesn't
- > |> anybody care about paper anymore? Yeesh. All my design books
- > |> devote a chapter or more to paper.)
-
- > You've got to be joking? (For one, Baskerville is not a modern :-)
- > Do you think authors have anything to say about the choice of paper?
- > I think I was lucky that they let me veto the first cover design.
- > (But the letter that came with the second design told me between the
- > lines that 'we will take this one whether you like it or not'.)
-
- Well, most type books classify Baskerville as a transitional, but
- it shares enough characteristics with a modern that for the
- purposes of paper selection, one can call it one.
-
- But somebody at A-W should have known not to use that paper with
- Baskerville (or maybe A-W doesn't care about how its books look).
-
- > The closer you get to production of the book, the less an author can do
- > about it.
-
- I've heard of authors who've requested and gotten acid free
- paper. Personally, I wouldn't care about whether a book on some
- piece of software is going to disintegrate in twenty years or
- not.
-
- > If I would have had any say in the choice of paper I would have
- > opted for parchment, in real leather binding :-)
-
- Probably would have taken Baskerville even worse. Today's smooth
- papers are largely an outgrowth of the demands of the
- transitionals and moderns as well as certain illustrative
- printing processes.
-
-
- -dh
-
- Don Hosek
- dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu
- Quixote Digital Typography
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