From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
To: "Martin Schöön" <martin.schoon@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: setting left margin in PDF output of ORG file
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:51:19 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24n1hchmw.fsf@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHxk2pDPAYoknXG6jXrk15=e3bU0Wx9YeGBOkpxoYo6wgReSJQ@mail.gmail.com> ("Martin \=\?utf-8\?B\?U2Now7bDtm4iJ3M\=\?\= message of "Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:31:58 +0200")
Bringhurst is very good.
Also, good discussions from a LaTeX point of view in Chapters 2 of the
Koma-Script and Memoir manuals.
On my system, I get these with `texdoc memoir' and `texdoc koma'.
hth,
Tom
Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> writes:
> Recommended reading if your are interested in typography:
>
> Robert Bringhurst: "The Elements of Typographical Style" ISBN 0-88179-205-5
> Victoria Squire: "Getting it Right with Type" ISBN-13: 978-1-85669-474-2
> Ellen Lupton: "thinking with type" ISBN 1-56898-448-0
> Derek Birdsall: "notes on book design" ISBN 0-300-10347-6
>
> I have enjoyed reading all four and I recommend you read at least two of
> them because there is not one and only one true and proper way to do this.
> Nor is it trivial so before changing anything you should make sure you know
> what you are doing! The ease with which the user can meddle with typography
> is one of the reasons word-processors such as MS Word and OpenOffice Write
> should be banned :-)
>
> --
> Martin Schöön
>
> http://hem.bredband.net/b262106/index.html
> Recommended reading if your are interested in typography:
>
> Robert Bringhurst: "The Elements of Typographical Style" ISBN
> 0-88179-205-5
> Victoria Squire: "Getting it Right with Type" ISBN-13:
> 978-1-85669-474-2
> Ellen Lupton: "thinking with type" ISBN 1-56898-448-0
> Derek Birdsall: "notes on book design" ISBN 0-300-10347-6
>
> I have enjoyed reading all four and I recommend you read at least two
> of them because there is not one and only one true and proper way to
> do this. Nor is it trivial so before changing anything you should make
> sure you know what you are doing! The ease with which the user can
> meddle with typography is one of the reasons word-processors such as
> MS Word and OpenOffice Write should be banned :-)
--
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-25 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 14:48 setting left margin in PDF output of ORG file J. David Boyd
2014-04-23 14:54 ` Bastien
2014-04-23 16:59 ` J. David Boyd
2014-04-23 17:41 ` John Hendy
2014-04-23 18:24 ` J. David Boyd
2014-04-23 17:47 ` Nick Dokos
2014-04-23 18:25 ` J. David Boyd
2014-04-24 10:29 ` Michael Strey
2014-04-25 19:01 ` John Hendy
2014-04-25 19:31 ` Martin Schöön
2014-04-25 19:51 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2014-04-25 19:57 ` Martin Schöön
2014-04-28 13:58 ` Michael Strey
2014-04-28 23:13 ` John Hendy
2014-04-28 23:23 ` John Hendy
2014-04-29 0:06 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-04-29 2:47 ` John Hendy
2014-04-25 20:19 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-26 12:23 ` J. David Boyd
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