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(non)material text

A project on the art, acts and technologies of writing, editing and publishing

Category: Desktop publishing

Posted on 21 August 202023 August 2020

Articulating text hierarchy

(scroll down for article in digital text and images) Visually coding the structural hierarchy of a text (ie different levels of headings, etc) is the bread and butter of what we need to handle when writing and editing documents of all kinds, in word processing, page layout and digital publishing environments. Graphical resources are used …

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Posted on 23 March 202013 April 2020

Retro computing: PageMaker 5.0

I learned desktop publishing on my Mac with a bootlegged copy of Aldus PageMaker 3. I’m now writing in version 5.0. In fact before I started on my Mac, I learned the basic concepts of desktop publishing at school on an Acorn Archimedes machine running Impression Style. I believe very few people outside of the …

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Posted on 9 March 202023 April 2020

Experiment 0.1: publication in lulu.com

(non)material text experiment number 0.1 – an edited and designed volume that records all 17 posts in the last two days has been published on lulu.com. You can order this 20-page print-on-demand booklet or download it as a PDF here.

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(non)material text is run by Keith Tam, a typographer, information designer and academic based in Hong Kong

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