memdesign.(pdf|tex) provides some notes and thoughts on typography and book design. It is an expanded version of the design notes originally included in the manual for the memoir class (memman.(pdf|tex)). ------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press) herries dot press at earthlink dot net Copyright 2001--2009 Peter R. Wilson This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of the license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later. This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". Maintainer: Lars Madsen (daleif at imf dot au dot dk) This work consists of the files: README (this file) memdesign.tex and the derived file memdesign.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- The distribution consists of the following files: README (this file) memdesign.(tex|pdf) Source and PDF document memetc.bib Bibliography database ------------------------------------------------------------------- The memoir class and files memsty.sty, titlepages.sty, memman.ist, and anvil2.mps are required to process memdesign.tex; these are part of the memoir distribution (the documentation). memdesign.pdf includes many examples of different typefaces. Some of these are from the FontSite500 CD. If you do not have these and want to process memdesign.tex yourself, then use the class draft option: \documentclass[draft,...]{memoir} Processing also requires the free Web-O-Mints font. To process memdesign.tex (if you really want to do this and not just use memdesign.pdf as supplied) o Run (pdf)latex twice on memdesign.tex o Run bibtex memdesign o For an index run: makeindex -s memman.ist memdesign o Run (pdf)latex once more on memdesign.tex o Print the manual 2009/12/14 Peter Wilson herries dot press at earthlink dot net