Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > It is documented in either book 1 or 2 of Digital Typography by (I think!) > P. Karow, of URW (i.e. the folks behind the Ikarus format (just google > for URW and Digital Typograhy or Ikarus)). I think it is in book one. The > books are an absolute 'must have' - but hard to get. Occasionally one can > be found second hand; usually from a art/font firm dealing with the > high end market of posters and other big print publications. > > But the algorithm described there is not a computer one; but more a method > for someone cutting the scripts coming out of the linotypes and pasting > them on the wax board.
I guess I am confused. The HZ algorithm is AFAIK a computer algorithm, or at least a mathematical one that can be implemented by a computer. I don't think it could be applied to a linotype at all, as that would be working with only one line of text at a time (I'm in over my head, barely knowing what a linotype is). Line-by-line breaking is what most word processors do, and what FOP currently does. HZ definitely looks at a bigger context -- either whole paragraphs or a fixed window of a quantity of lines. So I wonder whether we are talking about the same thing. I see Rhett's post that he has found a copy of the books, so perhaps we can figure out a way to check for sure. Thanks for the info! I must admit to being a bit humbled. I have shopped for font editing software at least twice, and never stumbled across URW, and have never heard of Ikarus before. I see also now in Bringhurst that he mentions the Seybold Report on Publishing Systems 22.11 as a source of information on this subject. A hard copy can be ordered for $25 ($20 if you are a Seybold subscriber) by pressing the "bk" button by "No. 11" at http://www.seyboldreports.com/SRPS/PSVOL22.HTM. I have ordered a copy. Bringhurst also mentions a book published by URW -- HZ-program: Micro-typography for Advanced Typesetting (Hamburg, 1993), which I have not yet been able to locate. Victor Mote --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
