June 13th, 2012 8. No ALL CAPS
As mentioned in the underline section, setting letters in all caps is the other way to emphasize words on a typewriter. Typesetting has many more options like italic, bold, bold italic, small caps. Plus we can use a larger size, a different font, a different color, and more. In fact, we
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May 16th, 2012 Space, space and a half, or double space?
None of the above! This is why we use leading instead of spacing. Spacing is old typewriter terminology. The three options listed above were the only ones available for typewriters. In almost every case (unless you are trying to mimic a typewriter) a single space is too
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May 2nd, 2012 Be very careful with your column choices—especially in books. (It’s the main reason blogs and ebooks are so hard to read.) Your focus must be easy, comfortable readability. Generally, the asymmetrical (off-center) layouts with wide margins are good. Of course, you can go crazy and make things totally illegible. Modern style tends to be chaotic, splashy,
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June 4th, 2011
Godly Leadership & Power: I & II Timothy
This is the first version of the newest release in the Easily UnderStanding Scripture series. Here’s the blurb:
In-line Verse By Verse Bible Study
This is a verse by verse bible study you can read! The scriptures are there followed immediately by the commentary. It is
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May 26th, 2011 This is another section of the new book. I would love to hear your comments. I consider this a ropugh draft. I will be adjusted and editied for the final book. But what i have here is the state of knowledge as I have it today.
ePUB Design For The New Publisher
Formatting your ePUB
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May 23rd, 2011 This is the rough draft of a third portion of “The New Publisher” which will be a guide to ministers, ministries, and non-profits who need to get their vision out to their people. This new paradigm of the 21st century radically changes things. It gives us an opportunity we should not pass up.
Formatting basics
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May 21st, 2011 O, yes we are!
Here’s some reality orientation for those of you, like me, who write and teach as a major part of your ministry for the Lord. I’ll let the stats speak for themselves. We really need to design easy to read, comfortable to read typography. We need to give our readers all the
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May 21st, 2011 Typotheque: The Science of Typography by Ellen Lupton.
She is one of the teachers considered the best. There’s some good information here. But the bottom line is “I’m not going to tell you what I believe.”
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May 21st, 2011 Choose a comfortable measure | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web.
Again this is for the Web, but this translates to ebook design also.
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February 5th, 2011 What is typography?
A good functional definition is very sweet and simple:
Typography is the art & craft of making words easy and comfortable to read Some of this has to do with font choices: But ebooks (other than PDF) do not presently allow embedded fonts Some has to do with leading and point size:
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