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The fourteen essays that comprise Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe interrogate questions posed by French, Flemish, English, and Italian collections of all sorts—libraries as a whole, anthologies and miscellanies assembled within a single manuscript or printed book, and even illustrated ivory boxes. Collecting became an increasingly important activity during the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries, when the decreased cost of producing books made ownership available to more people. But the act of collecting is never neutral: it gathers information, orders material (especially linear texts), and prioritizes everything—in short, collecting both organizes and comments on knowledge. Moreover, the context of a collection must reveal something about identity, but whose? That of the compiler? The reader or viewer? The donor? The patron? With essays by a wide array of international scholars, Collections in Context demonstrates that the very act of collecting inevitably imposes some kind of relationship among what might otherwise be naively thought of as disparate elements and simultaneously exposes something about the community that created and used the collection. Thus, Collections in Context offers unusual insights into how collecting both produced knowledge and built community in early modern Europe.

Wurden Rahmengestaltungen in der Forschung zur mittelalterlichen Buchkunst bisher vor allem in Bezug auf das Seitenlayout diskutiert, widmet sich Kristin Böse dem Verhältnis von rahmender Seitengestaltung und dem Buch als Ganzem. Am Beispiel von Manuskripten, die zwischen dem späten 9. und frühen 12. Jahrhundert auf der Iberischen Halbinsel entstanden, erkundet sie die struktur- und raumbildenden Strategien von Eröffnungs- und Schlussseiten. Diese besonders durch Ornamente geprägten ganzseitigen Darstellungen bereiten visuell auf die Lektüre vor und eröffnen Denkmöglichkeiten einer Einordnung des Codex in übergreifende Zusammenhänge. Dabei gerät auch die Entstehung der untersuchten Manuskripte in Grenzräumen zwischen den christlich und muslimisch dominierten Gebieten in den Blick.

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Although SVG is mostly known as a graphics format, one of its key benefits is that it encodes decorative text in a way that is editable, accessible, and search engine-discoverable. The SVG specifications give designers extensive control over the positioning and appearance of text—but at the cost of many of the automatic text layout settings used for paragraphs on a web page.SVG Text Layout takes an in-depth look at the many ways designers can manipulate text within SVG, from adding simple text labels to letter-by-letter positioning of artistic text. You'll learn how both artistic fonts and SVG painting effects can be used to decorate text, and discusses various approaches for increasing consistency between different web browsers and other software.

Bei der Erstellung einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit spielen Layout, Schriftbild, Abbildungen usw. eine wichtige Rolle. Zur Integration von Text und Bild stehen heute unterschiedliche Software-Pakete zur Verfügung, die - effektiv eingesetzt - die Arbeit am Manuskript erleichtern. Die Autorin stellt die typografischen Grundsätze zur Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten kompakt dar. Sie geht auf den Aufbau des Manuskripts ein und behandelt Seitenformat, inhaltliche Abfolge der Seiten und Kapitel sowie die Einband- und Titelgestaltung von der Konzeption bis zur Fertigstellung. Besondere Berücksichtigung finden dabei die Programme MS Word und Adobe InDesign. Kurzleitfaden und Glossar runden das Buch ab.