KlezKanada

So, it was finally morning. Roberta and I meet after breakfast to figure out how to design and typeset a newsletter in two hours. I'm not sure how long it will take the office to reproduce it, but I'm figuring about an hour. Lunch is at noon. It is now nine. We go for a relatively large type face. A lot of the attendees are older. We don't want them to need magnifying glasses to read the newsletter. Roberta argues for a bit more leading than I might have given, but she is right.

I have no Yiddish text for this issue. It cannot be that a newsletter at KlezKanada fails to include Yiddish, so I mangle a bit of text that Peysakh has translated for me out of the daily calendar. I don't have room for the calendar, and don't have time to type in all the Yiddish. This will have to suffice. Then i remember the handout I typeset for Kolya the day before: A little Yiddish for Klezmorim. Ah. All is well.

The office copies, collates and staples 100 copies of the newsletter and we hand it out at lunch. All go within seconds. All day people will ask me for additional copies.

Here is a PDF of the August 23 KlezKanada newsletter as it was handed out (with a few minor corrections).

One of the goals of the newsletter is to present Yiddish typeset correctly (e.g., when it is translated, you will see that the Yiddish appears on the left hand side of the page: no dueling languages for this newsletter), and to present a cacophony of fonts and styles. It is embarrassing, of course, to return to the 500 fonts/page of early desktop publishers, but I want people to see Yiddish that looks interesting and evocative and especially, readable and exciting. So, there will be some cacophony to come. For today, not so much, but stay tuned.