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4. To Cap or Not to Cap?
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
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Raphaël Freeman
- Mar 2, 2018
- 3 min
2. Ligatures
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
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 26, 2018
- 3 min
1. Text Figures
There are essentially four sets of numbers (ignoring superscripts etc.) that we need to deal with. Just like the letters of the alphabet, we
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 2, 2018
- 1 min
3. How to Kern Like a Pro
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....
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Raphael Freeman
- Dec 20, 2017
- 1 min
Ḥanuka
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...
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Raphaël Freeman
- Dec 6, 2017
- 1 min
Balancing the book
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...
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Raphaël Freeman
- Sep 29, 2017
- 6 min
Oops I made a mistake
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...
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Raphael Freeman
- Mar 9, 2017
- 4 min
Word vs InDesign for your Book: an Expert Analysis
The change of typeface has improved the situation overall, but it hasn’t addressed the biggest problem – spacing. In picture 3 we have taken
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 15, 2017
- 3 min
What is the Half-Title Page?
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...
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 14, 2017
- 1 min
Setting the page margins in InDesign
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
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Raphaël Freeman
- Jan 31, 2017
- 1 min
Boxes and Lines in Complex Layout
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
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Raphaël Freeman
- Jan 30, 2017
- 3 min
How to prepare your book for typesetting
Assigning styles aren’t necessary – it just can make the process for the author, editor and typesetter more efficent. However, as long as th
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Raphaël Freeman
- Jan 27, 2017
- 3 min
Typesetting Mistakes From the Inauguration Invitation – Lessons for Every Designer
This particular problem continues throughout the program. On page 6, however, things start to deteriorate. Although the designer used true s
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Raphaël Freeman
- Jan 20, 2017
- 5 min
The Anatomy of a Book
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
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 10, 2016
- 1 min
Hebrew Voices – Adventures in Hebrew Typesetting.
In one story (at 23:30), I explain in detail how we went about digitizing the font of the famous Koren Bible and challenges in the process.
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Raphaël Freeman
- Dec 12, 2015
- 2 min
Commercial extensions
About ten days ago I was working on a project and was very frustrated. In InDesign the only way to make footnotes renumber at each chapter i
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Raphaël Freeman
- Mar 5, 2014
- 3 min
Book Designer meets Programmer
When we start to deal with a chumash with an English translation and commentary, and then throw in footnotes to boot, then we are dealing wi
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Raphaël Freeman
- Jan 29, 2014
- 2 min
Technology in Traditional Book Manufacture
However after typesetting there is a dispute. As a typesetter with multiple displays (yes four of them!) I prefer to receive a marked-up PDF
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Raphaël Freeman
- Dec 3, 2013
- 3 min
Typesetting for Glass
Just as I was in University studying a rather unique combination of subjects, Computer Science and Printing & Photographic Technology...
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