QuarkXPress in a Nutshell By Donnie O'Quinn
January 1900
Pages: 544

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal featured on the cover of Quark XPress in a Nutshell is a hare. A small grazing mammal, hares are generally larger than rabbits, have longer ears, softer fur, and longer, more powerful hindlegs. When chased, they rely on speed and sudden changes in direction (called "jinking") to elude pursuers. Wide-set eyes give them a wide angle of vision. Primarily nocturnal, they can scent enemies, thump the ground with a hindleg when alarmed, and, in turn, sense the nearby thumping of other startled hares. Hares occupy open country, and are mainly solitary except during breeding season. The pre-mating antics of the males include bucking, bounding, kicking, and standing on hindlegs to box with one another; thus the saying, "Mad as a March hare." These boisterous exercises can sometimes include a dozen or more participants. The hare's acknowledged reproductive prowess helps compensate for its high rate of predation. Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with Quark XPress 3.32 using the ITC Garamond font.

Whenever possible, our books use RepKover™, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit, perfect binding is used. The inside layout was designed by Nancy Priest and implemented in troff by Lenny Muellner. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The screen shots that appear in the book were created in Adobe Photoshop 4 and the illustrations were created in Macromedia Freehand 7.0 by Robert Romano. This colophon was written by Michael Kalantarian.

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