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Far From Being a Utilitarian Afterthought, an Astonishing Number of Design Choices Go Into Pagination (theoutline.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In his landmark 1931 book An Essay on Typography, the British typographer Eric Gill discusses everything from the proper place for the tail of an 'R' to terminate to which type of word press might best serve the amateur typographer. He casts the printed word as sacred. But there's one thing -- a silent, steady workhorse found in nearly every book -- that Gill fails to address: the lowly page number. The functional role of the page number is simple: it provides order and sequence to a text. And while it is a supremely utilitarian design element, more thought is put into it than you might imagine. Should it go at the top or the bottom of the page? In the right or left margin? Or in the center? These are all conscious and deliberate choices made by designers.
Holy shit -- do we have a slow news day?
* If you have single sided printing, you can put the page number centered at the bottom.
* If you have double-sided printing, you can put the page number near the outside edges.
But let's keep over analyzing something that takes less then 10 second to think about.
And if you are working for someone else, chances are, there is a *Coding Convention* to adhere to, McFly.
Half communist catholic who fucked his daughters, his sisters and.... his dog. Freaky is one way to put it.
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
Pro tip: Words like "Mr." and many other handles (with or without a ".") should always be followed by a nbsp to stop possible dissociation across a line break, Mr.
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No, your children are not the special ones. Nor are your pets.
Who marked this "Troll"??? He really did all of that!
Search for "Eric Gill" on the internet.
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism