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Notes on typographic decisions

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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  1. Notes on typographic
    decisions
    Gerry Leonidas
    University of Reading
    @gerryleonidas
    Monday, 16 September 13

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  2. Start with complex typography
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  3. For typographers, semantic and
    pragmatic dimensions are
    integrated.
    > Decisions on sequence,
    grouping, continuity
    > Levels: document, article,
    paragraph, line
    [hierarchy!]
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  4. But the authoring environments
    determine options for makers.
    These move closer to the first
    content maker, and away from
    fixed ideas of rendering.
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  5. Biased authoring environments
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  6. We are working on models for
    structural + semantic markup at
    the time of authoring.
    content
    content content
    content
    content
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  7. Easy environments with deep
    specification potential
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