For a while we've been thinking that as part of the Open Shakespeare project it would be nice to produce an "Open Shakespeare Edition" of the Shakespeare texts.
By an 'Edition' we meant something designed as a book and suitable for printing: so nice frontpieces, with everything typeset properly etc. This could then be downloaded and printed or even offered in dead-tree version ourselves using print-on-demand. Recently, we've made a start on this endeavour using the moby XML sources, xsl and latex [1]. An example of the results can be seen at: <http://www.openshakespeare.org/images/anthony_and_cleopatra.pdf> As a cursory look at that will show, while the body of the play doesn't look too bad, the front-page isn't so hot. It would be nice to improve this (as well as the front-matter generally). So, questions for people: 1. We probably want the help of designers here. If so, how can we get some involved? * Is there anyone on this list with expertise? * Should we run a design competition? * Are there good lists to try for this? 2. What kind of general look should we go for? E.g. could have: * Ultra traditional (but perhaps with some mods e.g. replacing std 'copyright' section with something about pen knowledge) * Or, something quite irreverent e.g. Hamlet by 'Bill' Shakespeare, with a funny ('pun') drawing (see the example on <http://okfn.org/wiki/ShakespeareBookDesign>) Regards, Rufus [1]:<http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/trac/timeline> _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
