“In perpetual deference to the author of a book, giving every advantage of maximum readability to his message; also to the publisher, allowing him economical production, generations of scribes developed the most commonly acceptable formulas for proportions of columns, margins, spaces between the lines, etc., that have served as models in the book field to this day.
Weights and forms of the handwritten letter also passed over to the newer expediency of the printing craft and underwent little change for a hundred years.
Relief from the static square and rectangular divisions of type areas may be obtained simply by feeding the paper into the press at an angle. This would be particularly suitable for a second impression in color over a first color fed on the square.
This may seem an obviously simple device that could have been employed in the past, and this is true, but typography continued from its inception for several hundred years with type characters composed and printed in the square of the chase and press bed. Nothing was thought of except the square. Type is still locked up in the square today.”
Basic Layout Design, Tommy Thompson, 1950
There are only 2 mentions of Konfell on the internet, well, that Google knows about anyway. One is on my blog, one is on the blog of an old friend. (Google thinks his is better, and at least by the standards of good writing, they’re right.)
But Konfell has reappeared, in the oldest of the old hunting grounds. This is a delight, truly, and perhaps even a sign of spring.
I had a mole removed today. Not like that one. In fact, it was on my back and I’d never seen it. I guess I never will.
From Mlive:
The commissioners learned even Ann Arbor is no longer immune. Long believed to be insulated from the crisis by an affluent population and the University of Michigan, the city had 11 properties up for tax foreclosure, McClary said. She said from 1997 to 2007, the city had only a total of four properties foreclosed for failure to pay property taxes.
”We thought we were invulnerable until it hit us on the head,” said county Commissioner Barbara Bergman, D-Ann Arbor.
This does not exactly inspire confidence in the leadership of Washtenaw County. Are you really that naive, Barbara?
