memdesign.(pdf|tex) provides some notes and thoughts on typography 
and book design. It is an expanded version of the design notes originally
included in the manual for the memoir class (memman.(pdf|tex)).

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  Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press) herries dot press at earthlink dot net
  Copyright 2001--2009 Peter R. Wilson
 
  This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
  conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either
  version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any 
  later version.
  The latest version of the license is in
     http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
  and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of
  LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later.
 
  This work has the LPPL maintenance status "author-maintained".
 
  This work consists of the files:
README (this file) 
memdesign.tex
  and the derived file
memdesign.pdf 
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    The distribution consists of the following files:
README                (this file)
memdesign.(tex|pdf)   Source and PDF document

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    The memoir class and files memsty.sty, titlepages.sty, memman.ist,
and anvil2.mps are required to process memdesign.tex; these are part
of the memoir distribution (the documentation).

    memdesign.pdf includes many examples of different typefaces. Some
of these are from the FontSite500 CD. If you do not have these and want 
to process memdesign.tex yourself, then use the class draft option:
\documentclass[draft,...]{memoir}
Processing also requires the free Web-O-Mints font. 

    To process memdesign.tex (if you really want to do this and not just use 
memdesign.pdf as supplied)
o Run (pdf)latex twice on memman.tex
o For an index run: makeindex -s memman.ist memdesign
o Run (pdf)latex once more on memdesign.tex
o Print the manual
  

2009/08/23
Peter Wilson
herries dot press at earthlink dot net