On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > the art of printing and typography has a long history and very special > terms came into being over time. Terms you can't look up in a > dictionary. Electronic Data Processing added more than a few words to > the printing business, and it's sometimes hard to ask questions here > about detailed functions required by publishers/printers simply because > of the inappropriate knowledge of special terms in English. > > I'd like to suggest a community project (probably a database) including > a glossary of typography/printing terms in different languages. > > I suppose that such a project could also speed up scribus documentation > in as many languages as possible. > > Any ideas?
Perhaps you may wish to read Peter Wilson's fantastic Memoir Class, found on a CTAN mirror near you under macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf or just search for memoir. Part 1, Art and Theory, I find very interesting. Owen
