The purpose of the article is to explore differences in perceptions and approaches typographic design among various communities that make up Haredi society. In general, shape letter will be affected by division between religious non-religious genres, as well intra-Haredi social “Hasidim” “Lithuanians”, two dominant groups society, whose lifestyles differ several areas. proposed an additional ti...

Desktop publishing has changed the production of books in recent years. For the first time the author has the possibilityof preparing and influencing the design of his text. A publisher will not always be happy about this, especially if the author does not want to follow the strict rules of the publishing house which it may have followed for years. But everybody should welcome this new method o...

These working notes summarise a genre theory that accounts for document layout in a three part communication model that recognises not only the effort of the writer to set out a topic and the purposeful effort by a reader to access information, but also the professional and manufacturing processes that intervene. I suggest that layout genres use conventions that at some historical point are roo...

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At the previous TEX Users Group meeting we described a program to revisit the long-standing dicta of typography from the point of view of experimental science [9]. Indeed, any practitioner of the art “knows” that serif fonts are better for continuous body copy, while sans serif fonts are better for the texts intended to be read in chunks, like advertisements, that optimal line sizes are based o...

For example, a woman who is described as 'gravida 2, para 2 (sometimes abbreviated to G2 P2) has had two pregnancies and two deliveries after 24 weeks, and a woman who is described as 'gravida 2, para 0' (G2 P0) has had two pregnancies, neither of which survived to a gestational age of 24 weeks. If they are both currently pregnant again, these women would have the obstetric résumé of G3 P2 and ...

We report on a study of children and parents shared reading of interactive printed books. We investigated the differences between books with interactive features and books with expressive typography in order to evaluate which features within a book encouraged interaction between the reading participants and the book. 11 parent and child groups took part in the study that involved three observed...

First, a survey on optical scaling is carried out, both from the traditional point of view and from that of today’s digital typography. Then the special case of large characters, such as braces or integral signs, is considered. It is shown that such variable sized symbols should be computed at print time in order to approach the quality of metal typesetting. Finally, an implementation of such d...