There are many ways by which a design may be fully appropriate or "crucial". I am not contradicting myself. There is no one best. I like Bloom's comment about Don Quixote: "It supports any theory you bring to it". I think something analogous applies in the relation between a book design and the text it contains. To say that many designs might be appropriate is not to say ANY design, of course. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: Rupert Dasilva <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, October 4, 2010 5:30:24 PM Subject: Re: Typography and literature > The content is the reader's interpretation of a context evoked by the text. > There could be many, many different designs for the same text. I'm sorry if I am not understanding you correctly, but I don't understand how the above responds to my query. You seem to be implying that you do not see the design of a text as being as 'crucial' as I interpreted you as claiming previously. In which case, how should I understand the sense of the term 'crucial' in order to reconcile this with your claim that 'The design of the text and the whole book format is crucial to the content'?
