On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:26:52 +0530, Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> humongous photograph of the two bearded men fills up the blank space. > what's the logic? big photographs=invites more readers? the logic according to garcia, who did the redesign: the page should have a hierarchy of stories; you force the reader to read stories in a particular sequence that you as the editor choose. whether s/he likes it or not. one of the aids towards that is the use of a dominant picture to show which story is the boss (along with the headline size) :) as it is practised: one huge picture per page, period. that sometimes the story could stand by itself prominently without aid of pictures just does't have any takers. :( most readers of the literary, and it does have a constituency, are not here to ogle at pictures, big or small. but the LR too, as far as possible, has to have big pictures. the written content has gone down by about 30% after the redesign. not that all the writing is always sensible... > PS> in the Zest Poetry list, Vivek Narayanan did a post yesterday that > referred to a friend reviewing Ramanujan in urgent need of the > Kannada names of some poems. I suspect the review in question was > your piece in today's Literary Review? can't be because i don't know vivek narayanan. but the translation you are referring to is, along with the more comprehensive "Oxford India Ramanujan", has editorial content that can only be called a disaster. regards, subash
