Optical weights are designed to be set at different sizes so in our example above of the footnotes, we might set the footnotes in the small

This is the fifth of a 10-part series of the Ten Keys to Seamless Typesetting. In our last installment we talked about the importance of...

If I were to ask you what laser or radar stands for, you might be surprised to find out that they are both acronyms. You can click on the wo

However, if the quality of the image is not good enough for press, then the image will be imported as large as possible such that it will be

The most classic ligature is the fi ligature. If you look at the image at the top of this page, you will see in the Arno font, if the f and

There are essentially four sets of numbers (ignoring superscripts etc.) that we need to deal with. Just like the letters of the alphabet, we

This is the third of a 10-part series of the Ten Keys to Seamless Typesetting. Kerning is a necessary part of the typesetting process....

So there was a recent post on InDesign Secrets on how to find Ḥanuka in a document since it is spelt in so many different ways. One of...

When the manuscript is complete and there are no more corrections, the next stage is the final one of “balancing” the book. This is the...

History It’s worth taking a step back to see how the process worked not that long ago. You would have typed up your manuscript on a...

A widow is the last line of a paragraph at the top of a page. An orphan is the first line of a paragraph at bottom of a page.

The change of typeface has improved the situation overall, but it hasn’t addressed the biggest problem – spacing. In picture 3 we have taken

There are various systems in calculating the margins around the page. My favorite is the above. The top and inside ( i ) margin are 1/9 of t

In a previous article, The Anatomy of a Book, I discussed the various elements that exist in a book. Essentially the prelims, the body of...

For quite some time, I would fiddle with the values until they were just so, but I decided that there must be a better way of doing this. I

So how does one build the ideal typesetting setup? Ultimately it comes down to the display. Not the memory, nor the processor. I even put in

In the below video I demonstrate how to achieve this in InDesign as well as quickly showing another favorite typesetting trick of mine of ho

Assigning styles aren’t necessary – it just can make the process for the author, editor and typesetter more efficent. However, as long as th

This particular problem continues throughout the program. On page 6, however, things start to deteriorate. Although the designer used true s

I’m going to list the pages here in the order that I usually typeset books, but of course each publisher will have their own rules and it’s