Typesetting

Yes, we set type, but in these days of textstreams and markup languages, ebooks and portable document format, we do a lot more than just set type.

Bookcraft uses the most up-to-date typesetting and page layout software – InDesign, Quark, Ventura – to design and set page after attractive and well-designed page, but we do not forget the decades of typographic tradition that make a book feel absolutely right, a joy to read and navigate.

We employ an ingenious text preparation strategy that enables us to use an author's word-processed files as the basis for beautiful typesetting. We know which typefaces work in which books, how equations, bibliographies and appendices should be laid out, how pictures can be used to their best advantage. If you want us to, we can even check all your references against online databases for accuracy and consistency.