Dear Sandip, > Another question. The art of document layout and document styles in > publications seems to be diffrent profession altogether. Is there any > resource which can be looked at to find out more about this field?
Huge field, many hundreds of years old. I had the fortune to learn some bits from a person who was an editor of a magazine and personally passionate about typography and typesetting; he used to sit with the printing press chaps when his magazine was "composed" on old Linotype and Monotype machines. I find typography and typesetting lovely subjects. :) Knuth (author of TeX) apparently had three PhD students doing work in hyphenation algorithms alone. This is how complex the field is. I've not been able to verify this story. :) In general, page composition done by today's computer-literate crowd is of very poor quality. Someone once said that modern WYSIWYG layout tools help you "not to follow rules of good typesetting, but to break them." Even among TeX users, I find a lot of blind following of defaults. For instance, people just use Computer Modern, totally unaware of gems like Imprint, Garamond, or Baskerville. This leads to typesetting and font selection which does not reflect the material's content. Of course, in the Windows world, the "Times New Roman" and the "Arial" and the default styles are so depressing that the less said, the better. If you can find any online resources, please let me know. regards, Shuvam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
