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Gerry Leonidas
September 16, 2013
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Notes on typographic decisions
Six slides for an introduction to a panel at the W3C Open Web Platform workshop in PAris
Gerry Leonidas
September 16, 2013
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Notes on typographic decisions Gerry Leonidas University of Reading @gerryleonidas
Monday, 16 September 13
Start with complex typography Monday, 16 September 13
For typographers, semantic and pragmatic dimensions are integrated. > Decisions
on sequence, grouping, continuity > Levels: document, article, paragraph, line [hierarchy!] Monday, 16 September 13
But the authoring environments determine options for makers. These move
closer to the first content maker, and away from fixed ideas of rendering. Monday, 16 September 13
Biased authoring environments Monday, 16 September 13
We are working on models for structural + semantic markup
at the time of authoring. content content content content content Monday, 16 September 13
Easy environments with deep specification potential Monday, 16 September 13