Re: [NTG-context] Character and word spacing

2014-05-31 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/31/2014 4:14 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: My issue with Dowding (and with Gill) is that they suggest that the compositor has an obligation to change the author's text, without consultation and agreement, in order to meet his concept of better page makeup. Dowding's sensitivity to the appearance of

[NTG-context] Character and word spacing

2014-05-29 Thread Rik Kabel
I am setting some text from Geoffrey Dowding's /Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type/. I am trying to set it using his recommendations. For those not familiar with his book, the key point is that he promotes extremely tight spacing to achieve a uniform density across the page in

Re: [NTG-context] Character and word spacing

2014-05-29 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/29/2014 8:15 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: I am setting some text from Geoffrey Dowding's /Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type/. I am trying to set it using his recommendations. For those not familiar with his book, the key point is that he promotes extremely tight spacing to achieve