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Writing guitar chords with LaTeX
We selected to illustrate a very recent package, gtrcrd, by Riccardo Bresciani, allowing the guitar players to add chords on top of the text. For exemplification, we chose the well known Beatles song And I Love Her. Here is the pdf and the source.
Font quizzes
Below are some font-related curiosities. Try your hand at some quizzes on typography terms, and a kerning test.
Typography terms
- Play Cheese or font http://cheeseorfont.com/
- Can you tell whether these are fontography terms or just pretentious blather? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/11/15/10237051.aspx
A reader comment from this blog:
Q: "Which of them are terms used in fontography, and which are just pretentious blather?" A: Is this a trick question?
Kerning test
- We look at typeset material daily, but can you position the letters like a type designer? http://type.method.ac
