For those uninitiated to the artistry and elegance of careful compositing and layout, do you have any examples?
It seems to be fairly easy to find exemplar typesetting on the internet (probably due, at least in part, to the phenomenal effort that has been poured into TeX/LaTeX and their ilk) but it's hard to find much that is considered to be a good representation of what careful human composition and layout can produce.
The only example that I could think of would be many of the books by Edward Tufte but I think much of that compositing has/was automated and "just" guided by a particular style that the author wanted to achieve.
The algorithmic approach to replacing human judgement has definitely resulted in a sort of race-to-the-bottom simply due to the economics (think about how few eyes would review a story before "print" today versus when this video was shot) so I wonder what sort of skill might've been lost and how it might be able to be recovered.
I initially thought that it was a 5-bit Baudot code until I realised that it didn't make much sense in any 5-bit encoding.
I was trying to work out how an editor would've screwed up the formatting without breaking the vertical line on the right which probably why I was so confused.
I'm amused to see that ppt(6) is still kicking around in OpenBSD (in the "games" base installation package) and is probably still sitting quietly on many machines today (have Apple removed it from OS X?).
It seems to be fairly easy to find exemplar typesetting on the internet (probably due, at least in part, to the phenomenal effort that has been poured into TeX/LaTeX and their ilk) but it's hard to find much that is considered to be a good representation of what careful human composition and layout can produce.
The only example that I could think of would be many of the books by Edward Tufte but I think much of that compositing has/was automated and "just" guided by a particular style that the author wanted to achieve.
The algorithmic approach to replacing human judgement has definitely resulted in a sort of race-to-the-bottom simply due to the economics (think about how few eyes would review a story before "print" today versus when this video was shot) so I wonder what sort of skill might've been lost and how it might be able to be recovered.