Review typesetting terminology

Terminology

Loose line abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

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Tight line abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Terminology

Tracking

In typography, tracking, also called letter-spacing, refers to the amount of space between a group of letters to affect density in a line or block of text.

Terminology

Widow

A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the remainder of the text.

The Chicago Manual of Style

Terminology

Orphan (1)

A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page/column.

The Chicago Manual of Style

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Orphan (2)

A word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.

The Chicago Manual of Style

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White space

White space, also known as negative space, is the term describing open space between design elements. Margins, leading, space between letters, words, paragraphs.

Terminology

River

In typography, rivers, or rivers of white, are visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text, due to an accidental alignment of spaces.

Terminology

Out of register

An imperfect REGISTER, meaning that the two sides of a printed sheet do not back each other perfectly, or the impression is not in correct position in relation to the other matter already ruled or printed on the sheet.

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt2403.html

Terminology

Unbalanced column

PRINCESS

Jim AlbrightWycliffe Bible Translators

Typesetting a Bible with Prince XML

PRINCE

My assignment

Create or extend a standard that will allow us to exchange Bibles in the process of translation that handles

multiple back translations (different languages),

translator and consultant notes, and status of translation.

OXES based on OSIS

OXES (Open XML for Editing Scripture) was developed to add requested features.

OSIS focuses on the finished translation. OXES includes process information so in the future translators will know why a passage was translated the way it is. OSIS is highly extensible. OXES is restrictive. All options are explicitly named.

Too many files to distribute

I have over 100 image files to include with the HTML documentation produced from the Relax NG schema.

Our son, Eric, suggested using Prince to produce one PDF file.

I looked at Prince PDF samples online

Prince PDF samples

Prince PDF samples

Prince PDF book

My OXES PDF documentation

Prince solved my problem

All the images are included in one PDF file that is easy to distribute

It seemed to handle book info well So …

Since Prince can do books

Page size

Paragraph formatting

Margins

A Bible is a book –extra requirements

Chapter numbers

Inline and stacking footnotes

Verse numbers

And much more

Test OXES by printing Bible

To test that I had a complete specification I decided to transform a Bible into OXES and then to print using Prince XML.

My Prince output: 1 column

justifiedragged

My Prince output: 2 column

justifiedragged

Typesetting

Complete automatic typesetting for a Bible probably won’t happen.

Need to insert and place picturesNeed to do tracking

Typesetting with Princess

Show how to fix

Show how to use Princess - live

Show what needs to be fixed

Good but not good enough

Which is better A or B? Why?

Which is better A or B? Why?

How do we get “B”?

Use Princess.

Princess

Princess – tracking menuAdobe Reader

Select text with mouse

Select tracking

Princess calls Prince

Progress bar

Prince success

Princess calls Prince

Prince success

Tracking in PDF

Interactive tracking

Interactive tracking

Interactive tracking

Interactive tracking

Interactive tracking

Fix other paragraph

Add pictures

Add picture of John the Baptist around MRK 1.4 to MRK 1.8.

Add picture of Jesus baptism around MRK 1.9 to MRK 1.12

…Add 2 column picture of last supper

aroundMRK 14.12 to MRK 14.26.

Page 2 with pictures inline

Page 2 no picture in text

To insert picture

Select anchor

Select picture and insert

Picture column top

Select anchor for second picture

Bad design - tombstone

Select picture

Picture column bottom

2 column picture

How do you get the PDF that you want? CSS – Cascading Style Sheet XML source text – Extensible Markup

Language Combine in PrinceXML to give you PDF

IntroductionXML…<div class="introduction"> <p class="first" te="Paragraph" usfm="p">Èle èèna, Maria

nèti Magdala, Maria dhu leo hari (ina Yakobis), dènge Salome, ra mate dai lod'o cèna, ho èle lod'o sabaj'a. Heka ra lasi hèli èi hèu mèngi, sèna ka bèli rèngu lasi pakose mi ngi'u Yesus, madhutu ad'a dhèu Yahudi. Ropa hari Migu madae aae na, tèlu ra lasi ro'a Yesus. Ètu talora j'ara, tèlu ra padhue, aku rèngu na, “Waa! Dai nèi na, cee ka dhu loli eele hadhu aae na, nèti hèba ro'a? Èdhi tèlu ti se, bisa boe, lula hadhu èèna kapai bia!” </p>

…

CSS

div.introduction{ font-style:italic; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style:solid; padding: 0 0 6pt 0; margin: 0 0 6pt 0;}

PDF

Prince

XMLCSS

PDF

Prince XML

Hyphenation rules

Adobe Reader

Text editor

Princess

copyCSS

PDF

Prince XML Princess

XML

Adobe Reader

Text editor

Hyphenation rules

Prince PDF Bible

Prince offers a free license for non-commercial use of Prince.

This license adds a small logo to the first page of generated PDF files.

Professional License495 USD

Server License3800 USD

Academic Server License1900 USD

More info for Prince

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcXUrNSvjhU

http://www.princexml.com/ http://www.princexml.com/roadmap/ Google: google Prince xml techtalk

youtube

More info for Princess

http://code.google.com/p/princess-2010

Coming soon

1. Support graphite font tables for complex scripts - This should fix end of ayah problems.

2. Support optical alignment for neater margins.3. Thai fonts4. Allow footnotes to be formatted as inline boxes.5. Add kashidas for Arabic justification.6. Be able to flip picture so face goes opposite direction.7. Rotate text so it slants uphill/downhill.8. Make the invisble rtl ltr markers non printing.9. Support for named flows as defined by CSS3

Generated Content for Paged Media. 10. Support CSS3 properties for control of justification. 11. Support CSS3 sidenotes.

Future

1. Develop mechanism to combine identical page references for indexing.

2. Support the float property on the ::first-letter pseudo-element.

3. Support Arabic subtending marks, U+600 to U+603.

4. Add padding-inside / padding-outside and border-inside / border-outside properties for duplex page layouts.

5. Support vertical text layout.

6. Fix bug where multiple floats can overlap if they are pulled out of their containing block by negative margins.

Imagine sunset picture here

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Questions about Prince XML

Michael Day at Prince XML responds to requests for improvements. They value user feedback.

Prince wants to do almost all possible printing with no human intervention.

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Bleedlayout, type or pictures that extend beyond the trim marks on a page. Illustrations that spread to the edge of the paper without margins are referred to as 'bled off'.

Bordera continuous decorative design or rule surrounding the matter on the page.

XML + CSS

XML textCascading Style Sheet

Propertiesprobably only ones not needed

text line throughtext line through colortext line through styletext overlinetext overline colortext overline style

CSS handles lots of print needs

Widow

Prince handles widows and orphans (definition #1)

The Chicago Manual of Style

div.scriptureText{ columns:2; column-gap:6pt; column-fill: balance; prince-hyphenate-patterns: url("../hyphen-nfa.txt") ; hyphens: auto ; hyphenate-before: 2; hyphenate-after: 3; hyphenate-lines: 1; widows:2; ophans:2; }

Other possible problems

Rivers, LakesWidows

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