M A N T E X N E W S L E T T E R
Number 48 - mid May 2001
Typography + Exams + Design
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0----- 'Stop Stealing Sheep'
This is a best-selling book on
typography, despite its daft title.
Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger
take you through the basics of
type and offer an appreciation
of good design.
It's an elegant production, with
a minimum of technical detail and
lots of enthusiasm. Review at -
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/spiek.htm
0----- 'Revision and Examinations'
Are you in the middle of exams?
Need help with some of the age-old
questions and problems?
REVISION & EXAMINATIONS shows you how
to prepare for exams and how to pass
them successfully. It will help you
improve your self-confidence and
overcome nerves and anxiety - and
show you how to guarantee your
best performance in the exam.
It includes specimen exam papers, and
hints from tutors on improving your
grades. Suitable for students at all
levels in further and higher education.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/books/exams.htm
0----- D.H. Lawrence - 2 items
Two subscribers have sent in notes
related to D.H. Lawrence - who gets
lots of hits in the GREAT WRITERS
section of our literature pages.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/dhl-00.htm
The first is a holiday offer!
You can stay in the same house where
Lawrence lived in Taormina, Sicily
between 1920 and 1923.
"The house is simply wonderful
and its ancient style make it a
unique place to visit and stay."
If you visit the web site of
Sr. Claudio Puglisi, it's worth
the short wait for a really
spectacular graphic.
http://www.taorminaholidays.com
The second item is from Pacific
Book Auction Galleries, who will
be offering a small collection of
D.H. Lawrence books, including
signed limited editions.
One highlight is a copy of
'Bay: A Book of Poems', 1/30
copies on Japan vellum.
The catalogue is on their web site
http://pacificbook.com
0----- 'Learning Web Design'
Do you want a good beginner's
guide to web page design?
Jennifer Niederst is a
professional web design trainer,
and her books are best-sellers.
Her latest is a very thorough
series of tutorials - well
illustrated, and with lots of
helpful tips and wrinkles.
She quite rightly advises you
to learn coding by hand, but
being realistic, also shows
how her most important
suggestions can be done
using Front Page, Dreamweaver,
and GoLive.
She covers all the basics and
offers brief introductions to
more advanced topics such as
style sheets, JavaScripts,
and multimedia. Work through
her suggestions, and you could
have a decent small-scale site
up on the Net. Review and details --
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/nieder-4.htm
0----- Post-graduate writing skills
Several people have recently asked
for recommendations of web sites
devoted to post-graduate writing
skills. We have a very popular
bibliography of writing guides,
but it does not include web sites.
If you know of a good site which
provides guidance on academic writing
at postgrad level, please could you
let us know about it. We will collect
the suggestions and pass them on here.
Our writing skills bibliography is at --
http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/bib1.htm
There's also an ILLUSTRATED version at -
http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/guides.htm
0----- Welcome to new subscribers
Welcome to a big influx of fresh
newsletter subscribers during the
last two weeks. From addresses in -
South Africa (.za) Italy (.it)
Singapore (.sg) Tuvalo (.to)
Andorra (.ad) South Korea (.kr)
Russia (.ru) and San Marino (.sm)
0----- Creating Desktop Scraps
Did you know that in Word,
you can drag text off the page
onto the Windows desktop?
When you drag text out of Word,
the text is placed in a document
scrap and given its own icon.
You can then drag the text back
into a Word document at a later
time. You can also double-click
the scrap icon to open it as a
document.
Scraps enable your desktop to
double as a super-Clipboard,
capable of holding not just one,
but many text snippets that you
can paste together later.
0----- FREE XML Editor (336 KB)
XML Notepad's user interface is simple
and intuitive, displaying all of the
source code graphically. Expanding and
collapsing data structures, the creation
of elements with attributes, and sub
elements are all a breeze with XML Notepad.
It's a quick download, and installs
quicker than anything I've ever seen!
http://www.WebmasterFree.com/microxml.html
0----- In the next issue
'Good Fiction Guide'
'Experience Design'
'XHTML Language & Design'
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News-48-May-2001
ISSN 1470-1863
The British Library