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Analogous to impnattypo, is there a package which implements Bringhurst's recommendations?

TeX - LaTeX Asked on June 28, 2021

The excellent impnattypo allows TeX users to programmatically implement a small selection of the rules set out in the Lexique des règles typographiques en usage à l’imprimerie nationale. Does a similar such package exist for implementing the a small selection of the guidelines set out masterfully by Bringhurst in the Elements of Typographic Style?

This question inspired by: French typography recommendations

Edit: I regret that I poorly phrased my initial question. Obviously, the very point of Elements is to learn to understand typographic style enough to create the right design to honour one’s particular text. I am referring instead to recommendations similar to those implemented by impnattypo, such as paragraph indentation, approaches to abbreviation and hyphenation, ligatures, etc., which are both fairly universal (though exceptions certainly may arise) and relatively straightforward to implement programmatically. Much like the Regles is a great volume, some of which was distilled into a package, I am searching for a package which distills the distillable and generalisable aspects of Elements

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Bringhurst sets out some recommendations but I wouldn't class them as rules. His book certainly has a style about it, for example repeat of the chapter title in the foremargin of recto pages, but not on every one where they could be overlaid by a marginal note, or perhaps replaced by a section title.

I think that the memoir class (warning: I developed it) provides the tools/commands to generate a Bringhurst-looking book but the writer will have to do a lot of specific work, maybe on a per-page basis. I think that the same might apply to any LaTeX class or package. From my point of view there was a lot of manual control of the typesetting of Bringhurst's book.

Answered by Peter Wilson on June 28, 2021

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