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koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180) writes:

>To clarify, a book must be produced on a manual press with the assistance
>of an ordained typographer, which is to say, it must meet certain rigorous
>standards of purity of process.

Guess what? Most books are _not_ produced with the assistance of an ordained
typographer and certainly don't meet rigorous standards of purity of process,
whatever you mean by that. Most books are shelled out by the thousands in
order to be available in bulk quantities. Or would you like to pay 10 Dollars
more for a cooking book, just because an ordained typographer has supervised
its making?


>This notwithstanding, I once encountered a very book-like object which had
>an error in the righthand headers that looked embarassingly like a word-
>processor-based editing error.

Which of course means that without that fumble in the righthand header the
object would have been indistinguishable from a book.


     Ulrich Mayring
     volksdesign.

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