This manual has been available on this site since about 1996, with improvements taking place frequently. The current version has been published as a book of about 350 pages by Cambridge University Press. By agreement with the Press, however, it will remain posted on this web site. Many improvements in the current version over previous ones are due to the (anonymous) referees of the Press, whom I wish to thank heartily. I also wish to thank Lauren Cowles, of the New York office of the Press, for much help with preparing the original version for publication. The paper edition appears also in Duotone red and black. For information on obtaining the paper edition, take a look at the Cambridge Press catalogue.
The current trend in productivity books, personal coaches and bloggers [...] is to stuff more and more things into each idle hour, until you are working all waking day. But you don’t need to move really far to find some other kind of advice: In a book published in 1910, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett already suggested that you need to claim several hours a week for improving yourself.
a script-based vector graphics language that provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX, for high-quality PostScript output.
OpenType ist das Standard-Fontformat der heutigen Zeit. Aber selbst 14 Jahre nach seiner Einführung verstehen viele Schriftanwender noch immer nicht völlig, was sich hinter diesem Begriff verbirgt und wie es sich von anderen Fontformaten unterscheidet. Dieser Artikel räumt mit den gängigen OpenType-Mythen auf.