Everything Wiki Publisher knows about typesetting books is here.1
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- Introduction
- If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. — Isaac Newton
¶ Basic Books
- Quick Start
- Make everything as simple as possible,
but not simpler. — Albert Einstein
¶ The Parts of a Book
- Front Matter
- Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst
- Main Matter
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Back Matter
- The great tragedy of science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley
¶ Custom Books
- Shape Shifting
- There is nothing so practical as a good theory. — Kurt Lewin
¶* Appendices
- Appendix: Technical Matters
- … though largely forgotten today, methods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve have been developed over centuries. To produce perfect books these rules have to be brought back to life and applied. — Jan Tschichold
- Customisation
- We haven’t got the money,
so we’ve got to think! — Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson
- Internationalisation
- That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say No in any of them. — Dorothy Parker