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Math textbook typesetting with formulas
Silvanus P. Thompson, Calculus Made Easy
170 × 240 mm · STIX Two, Fira Sans · 33 pp
About this sample
A 33-page sample from Silvanus Thompson's Calculus Made Easy (1914). The task is a textbook full of formulas that still reads easily. Formulas are set in LaTeX with STIX Two Math and placed in InDesign as vector art on the text baseline. Equation numbers, the author's side notes and small diagrams sit in a wide outer margin. Exercises point to the answers by live page references. Trim 170 × 240 mm, STIX Two Text and Fira Sans. Print PDF, InDesign package, IDML. Self-initiated sample, public-domain text.
What it shows
- Formulas set in LaTeX with STIX Two Math, placed as vector art on the text baseline
- Equation numbers and the author’s side notes in a wide outer margin
- Small diagrams next to the text they explain
- Exercises that point to the answers by live page references
Text: Silvanus P. Thompson, Calculus Made Easy, 2nd edition (1914), from Project Gutenberg eBook #33283 (gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283). Public domain in the USA.
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