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Subject:Re: What is wrong with white space? From:Karel van der Waarde <waarde -at- GLO -dot- BE> Date:Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:39:39 +0200
Sean Brierley asked:
>So, can anyone recommend any books written about use of white space,
>paragraph length, column size, and other such design elements?
One of the main books on the use of white space is:
James Hartley: Designing Instructional Text (3rd edition) 1994
East brunswick (NJ): Nichols Publishing. ISBN 0 89397 399 8
London: Kogan Page Ltd. ISBN 0 7494 1037 X
Specifications for paragraph length, column size and other design elements
are strongly related to the document-type (genre). 'Design rules' that
claim to apply to all genres should be mistrusted and can in most cases
safely be ignored.
Kind regards,
Karel van der Waarde
waarde -at- glo -dot- be
