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Quincunx — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:14:55 -0800

Yep, it’s copied posts from others, reposted with WoW-crap underneath.

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Asvetic — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:02:05 -0800

I think we have a spammer: sunyapeng2006

Every topic he’s responded too has been about some World of Warcraft thing.

My roommate in college was a

sunyapeng2006 — Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:20:15 -0800

My roommate in college was a huge numbers freak, seriously, he had a man-crush on Fibonacci (and a large poster of him in his room!)

I’ve always been interested in how the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci’s number sequence interacted with elements of design. This is a great example.

Jason, I was wondering what your Avatar was, I could see the Golden Ratio on the left, but hadn’t a clue what was represented on the right. Thanks for clearing that up. Is there a link to a larger version somewhere?
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I use that somtimes, but

Quincunx — Mon, 5 Mar 2007 05:49:33 -0800

I use that somtimes, but usually I have to increase the inside margins quite a bit.
I guess it works if you use a binding method that allows a book to lie open flat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

T Bones — Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:04:03 -0800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction

My sketch is just a quick

jason — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:35:31 -0800

My sketch is just a quick combination of diagrams from a few different sources, mainly Tschichold (The Form of the Book) and Bringhurst, but that PDF looks quite good as well.

Ow yeah! Now that’s cool

vincentg — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:50:20 -0800

Ow yeah! Now that’s cool :-) Had already been scouting the internet to find a magnified version of your avatar; this just made it 1000x easier :-).

While searching though, I found this: The Typesetting Area (PDF, 216KiB), courtesy The Dutch TeX user group website.

That’s just freakin sweet

Asvetic — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:29:24 -0800

That’s just freakin sweet looking! Thanks

jason — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:17:24 -0800

Charles, how much do you

William Berkson — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:17:10 -0800

Charles, how much do you correct—how much added to the gutter—for the different types of bindings?

My roommate in college was a

Asvetic — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:10:26 -0800

My roommate in college was a huge numbers freak, seriously, he had a man-crush on Fibonacci (and a large poster of him in his room!)

I’ve always been interested in how the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci’s number sequence interacted with elements of design. This is a great example.

I was trying to explain it

wyndom — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:06:39 -0800

I was trying to explain it to someone else, and as I was doing so, realized the significance of the red line....thanks again

For those nice, classical

charles_e — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:06:21 -0800

For those nice, classical gutter margins: Just make sure the book will be Smythe-sewn. If it is perfect-bound or even notch bound, your readers will be digging the text out of the gutter.

The red line shows that the

dsgoen — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:58:11 -0800

The red line shows that the golden ratio section also accounts for the left corner. The red lines start at the point defined by the golden ratio. It’s just making the relationship clear.

Book Design Question

wyndom — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:12:02 -0800

What is the significance of the red line?