[Scribus] typography/printing-glossary

[Owen Cook]

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