henry@angel (Henry McGilton--Software Products) (06/30/88)
Arun Chandra asks:
Does anybody know of the book:
The Illustrated Handbook of Desktop Publishing and Typesetting
by Kleper
I just found it advertised in a commercial catalog, and would like to
get it if it's worthwhile (it costs $23.95).
This book is very (uh) comprehensive. It's 770 pages, including the
index. There are just tons of data about all sorts of systems.
Being a died-in-the-wool troff person myself, I found the book
surprising in that it doesn't mention troff, tbl, eqn, or pic. It
devotes less than two pages to TeX, and two paragraphs to Scribe.
Other than those small omissions, the book covers a lot of stuff.
.......... Henry
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with a subject line of helpCFChavez.ES@Xerox.COM (Caesar Chavez) (07/08/88)
In response to query re: The Illustrated Handbook of Desktop Publishing
and Typesetting by Kleper
According to a friend who has taught typography and (some) ad
composition art at Art Center of Pasadena:
'this is the best book on the subject/s' 'if there is only one
book you should read this year on desktop publishing, it's this one'
He's been in the business for years and highly recommends this book.
Typesetting and composition with type are his specialities. My guess
is that those software DTP packages which are somewhere between word
processing and real desktop publishing would probably get short shrift
in a book which touts itself as being a book on typesetting. And that
the software which allows individual placement of letters, custom sizes
in fonts and less common fonts would be closer to the kinds of
applications that an "electronic typesetter" would want to see these
days. Hence there would be little mention of the less sophisticated,
non-WYSIWYG software packages.
Caesar
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