Notes on typographic
decisions
Gerry Leonidas
University of Reading
@gerryleonidas
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Start with complex typography
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For typographers, semantic and
pragmatic dimensions are
integrated.
> Decisions on sequence,
grouping, continuity
> Levels: document, article,
paragraph, line
[hierarchy!]
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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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Biased authoring environments
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We are working on models for
structural + semantic markup at
the time of authoring.
content
content content
content
content
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Easy environments with deep
specification potential
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