Fernand Baudin

The Visual Editing of Texts

Visible Language XVIII/1 (1984)

https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl/article/view/5378/4242

“The idea I want to develop here can be expressed briefly as the argument for analyzing, studying, and describing text pages as configurations of columns and lines and as constellations of alphabets.”

“Given the circumstances this may prove a decisive step towards meeting, if not solving, the innumerable challenges of the Computer Age.”

“Everybody benefits by being more alert to the fact that the visual editing is not part of any medium but must be made part of any text.”

“If it is difficult, this is only one more reason why visual editing should be taught generally.”