I've read that the Gutenberg bible is formatted without spaces. It's interesting that they aren't essential to reading.
I've also read that it's all uniformly blocked out with so many characters to a line, so many lines to a column, two columns to a page, and ending with a full page. In a sense, one of first books (it isn't actually *the* first) ever printed was the most perfectly formatted ever. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Simon Pascal Klein <kle...@klepas.org>wrote: > > On 30/01/2009, at 2:15 AM, <kie...@humdingerdesigns.co.uk> < > kie...@humdingerdesigns.co.uk> wrote: > > Join the club, I've been commissioned to do a local website and the guy >> was hoping he'd be able to get a quick bug-fix on his current with a bit of >> updating. >> >> Unfortuanetly the css was akin to the Guttenberg Bible; completely >> unreadable and would have been a pig to translate. Not to mention, a strange >> and chaotic mishmash of tables, frames and weird proprietary software >> markup. Some clients (and this one did, thank god) need to realize that when >> the original is written by a back street bedroom "I can do that" wannabe, >> they're paying for someone who can stick a few words and pics up and not >> much else. >> > > Wel, I for one, relish at the idea of getting my hands on a Gutenburg Bible > and reading it… well analysing the lettering and type rather, but hey. :-) > > > From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On >> Behalf Of James Jeffery >> Sent: 29 January 2009 14:13 >> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org >> Subject: Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :( >> >> [...] >> > > --- > Simon Pascal Klein > Graphic & Web Designer > > Web: http://klepas.org > E-mai: kle...@klepas.org > Twitter: @klepas; http://twitter.com/klepas > > > Kaffee und Kuchen. > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
