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diff --git a/letterspace.tex b/letterspace.tex index 257981b..fea85df 100644 --- a/letterspace.tex +++ b/letterspace.tex @@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ spaceskip=.5em, ] +\defineletterspace [smallcaps] +\setupletterspace [smallcaps] [ + spacefactor=.05, + spaceskip=.25em, +] + \defineletterspace [textemph] \setupletterspace [textemph] [ spacefactor=.125, @@ -19,6 +25,7 @@ ] \let\te\textemph +\unexpanded\def\name#1{\smallcaps{\sc#1}} \defineletterspace [ugly] \setupletterspace [ugly] [ @@ -55,6 +62,9 @@ \setupbodyfontenvironment [default] [em=italic] +\def\quote#1{\bgroup\italic#1\egroup} +\def\uprightslash{\bgroup\rm/\egroup} + %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Presenting the Interface % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -243,6 +253,103 @@ \def\phglistdots{\gleaders\hbox to 1em{\hss.\hss}\hfill} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +% Bibliography % +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +% Bib: Setups % +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +\setuppublications [ + alternative=ssa, + refcommand=authoryear, + %sorttype=bbl, + sort=author, + numbering=yes, + autohang=yes, +] + +\setuppublicationlist [ + artauthor=\invertedauthor, +] + +\setupcite [authoryear] [compress=no] + +%%% Used in bibliography formatting. +\definestartstop [bibindent] [ + before={\startnarrower[left]% + \setupindenting[-\leftskip,yes,first]% + \clubpenalty-9000% + \widowpenalty-9000% + }, + after=\stopnarrower, +] + +\unexpanded\def\ctay#1{\cite[authoryear][#1]} + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +% Bib: Entries % +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +\startpublication [ + k=lt, + t=book, + a={{Willberg/Forssman}}, + y=1997, + %n=1, + s={Lesetypographie}, +] + \author[]{Hans Peter}[]{}{Willberg} + \author[]{Friedrich}[]{}{Forssmann} + \pubyear{1997} + \title{Lesetypographie} + \city{Mainz} +\stoppublication + +\startpublication [ + k=mt, + t=book, + a={Bodoni}, + y=1818, + %n=1, + s={Manuale}, +] + \author[]{Giambattista}[]{}{Bodoni} + \pubyear{1818} + \title{Manuale Tipografico, 2~vols} + \city{Parma} +\stoppublication + +\startpublication [ + k=bh, + t=book, + a={Bringhurst}, + y=2008, + %n=1, + s={Elements}, +] + \author[]{Robert}[]{}{Bringhurst} + \pubyear{2008} + \title{The Elements of Typographic Style} + \edition{3.2} + \city{Point Roberts WA, Vancouver} +\stoppublication + +\startpublication[ + k=roemer, + t=article, + a={Roemer}, + y=2011, + %n=3, + s={Gewichten}, +] + \artauthor[]{Christine}[]{}{Roemer} + \pubyear{2011} + \arttitle{Gewichten -- Wichtiges und Unwichtiges mit \LATEX\ markieren} + \journal{Die \TEX nische Komödie} + \volume{2011:1} + \pages{6--16} +\stoppublication + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Misc % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -315,6 +422,13 @@ \placelist[chapter,section][criterium=all] +\chapter{Introduction} + +Robert \name{Bringhurst} quotes Frederick \name{Goudy}’s famous +dictum on the topic of letterspacing: \quote{A man who would +letterspace lowercase would steal sheep.}\footnote{\ctay{bh}, +S.~31.} + \chapter{Commands} \section{Default Letterspace Command} @@ -329,7 +443,7 @@ \chapter{Applications} -\section{Things to Avoid} +\section{Precautions} \te{Letterspacing} is a dynamic property of a string of text, as opposed to static font properties that are e.g. italics or slant. @@ -353,13 +467,112 @@ Moderate values don’t express how important a particular emphasis is to the author? Just \ugly{widen the spacing} and no reader will ever skip over your message \dots. Sure, everybody will get the cue, though the appearance of the -paragraph, possibly the whole page will certainly be spoilt. - +highlighted text, the paragraph, and possibly the whole page will +certainly be spoilt. +Granted, from this perspective letterspacing might appear to be +too dangerous a tool, only begging for misuse. +But this judgement is premature as letterspacing has in fact a +long tradition and was employed in many outstanding examples of +typography. +Apart from its seductive versatility there are no objections +against letterspacing on a general level, as long as it is +carefully utilized. + +Letterspacing has two prevailing uses: ({\it1}) for emphases and +({\it2}) for spacing capital letters, which is especially +valuable in display situations like for instance the front matter +of books or section headings. +Both come with a set of peculiarities that the typesetter must +consider in order to figure out the appropriate values for the +interword and letter spacings. \section{Emphasis} +Documents that require many levels of different emphases are +among the primary targets of letterspacing. +For example, in linguistics an author might wish to distinguish +({\it1}) names of cited authors, ({\it2}) ordinary text emphasis, +({\it3}) inline quoted passages, and ({\it4}) word forms or +etymological roots. +To be sure, this can be accomplished with a mapping like + {\it1}: small capitals, + {\it2}: italics, + {\it3}: quotation marks, and + {\it4}: a slanted face. +But \te{quotation marks} are hard to keep track of, if the enveloped +text exceeds a certain length; also, they disencourage skimming +because the reader always has to check whether the point that +caught his eye might belong to a quotation instead of the main +text. +In various fonts -- mainly sans serif -- \te{slant} cannot easily +be told apart from italics, thus defeating the very purpose of +emphasis, in other fonts it might not be available at all. +\te{Bold face} might seem to be an obvious alternative but even +semi bold weights cause text to stand out from the surrounding +paragraph, diverting the readers attention away from its normal +trail along successive lines. +Besides, the more a text is intermingled with different weights, +the closer it resembles the look of a dictionary. + +After these deliberations the validity of \te{letterspacing,} +including lower case, as a means of emphasis is already half +established. +It beats slant with respect to availability and differentiating +effect. +It is preferable over quotation marks because the emphasized +passage clearly differs from the main font style. +Finally, it triumphs over weight switching as the result is very +close to the mean overall distribution of ink within the text +body. +In the previous graduation of emphasis levels an alternative +involving letter spacing could be as follows: + {\it1}: small caps, + {\it2}: letterspaced text font, + {\it3}: italics, and + {\it4}: letterspaced italics or slants. +Here another convenient feature of letterspacing becomes +apparent: as it is basically a different method of typesetting +the same font it can theoretically be applied on any typeface and +weight. +It follows, that in the foregoing mapping, parts of longer +(italic) quotations may be emphasized as well: + \quote{% + regum timendorum in proprios greges {\uprightslash} + reges in ipsos imperium est \te{Iouis} {\uprightslash} + \te{clari} Giganteo triumpho {\uprightslash} + cuncta supercilio \te{mouentis.}% + } +However, substituting rule {\it2} for {\it3}, the resulting +mapping will be less satisfactory. +As quotations are prone to extending over multiple lines, whereas +normal emphasis rarely spans more than two words, letter spacing +the former might lead to the unbalanced appearance of paragraphs. +So best avoid letterspacing in cases where the object possibly +encompasses entire sentences. + +Caution is necessary concerning \te{punctuation} adjacient to the +letterspaced passage. +In contrast to italicized or bold emphasis where an immediately +succeeding punctuation sign is best typeset in the surrounding +main face (e.g. „et {\it tu}, Brute?“), letter spacing may +require the sign to be typeset as part of the emphasis. +The reason for this consists partly in the larger interword +spacing that extends to the surrounding spaces, and partly also +on the letterspacing itself which would be disrupted by a +tighter-spaced character. +(Bad: \te{O Tite}, tute, \te{Tati}, tibi tanta, \te{tyranne}, tulisti; +good: \te{O Tite,} tute, \te{Tati,} tibi tanta, \te{tyranne,} tulisti.) \section{Capital Spacing} +\section{Don’t’s} +-- different letterspace widths for the same meaning + + +\title{References} + +\startbibindent + \placepublications[criterium=all] +\stopbibindent \stopbodymatter \stoptext |