Study&workshop edition of the Bible
How to make the user easily being able to work with fragments of the Holy Scripture text and fully use the comments contained in the publication?
General assumptions:
1. The purpose of the publication is to create a prototype that is friendly to work with fragments of content.
2. Work with the text should be of a workshop and meditative nature; the form of the artifact, selected typographic measures should minimize the path of the message – recipient, be simple (intuitive) and do not argue with a sense of sacrum.
3. Providing existing footnotes and comments in an accessible form to facilitate understanding of the content.
Formal assumptions for publication:
1. Division: book-binder, the ability to extract individual books, to solve the problem of volume.
2. Individual books as separate parts to facilitate navigation.
3. Format conducive to photocopying on A4 sheets without the need for scaling.
4. As light as possible (easy to carry due to different working conditions).
5. Layout that allows you to take notes in the margins.
6. Important economic factor.
Detailed for typography:
1. Typeface and size of the font with high readability after photocopying, enabling economical composition (not too wide).
2. Treating footnotes and comments almost on par with the main text in order to encourage readers to use them.
3. Clear breakdowns of text blocks for easier navigating and highlighting fragments.
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