Learning Carbon

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 animals on the cover of Learning Carbon are bloodhounds.

Sarah Jane Shangraw was the production editor and proofreader for Learning Carbon. Paulette Miley was the copyeditor. Catherine Morris and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Ann Schirmer, Linley Dolby, and Matt Hutchinson worked on interior composition. Joe Wizda wrote the index.

Pam Spremulli designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover mechanical with Quark™XPress 4.1 using Adobe’s ITC Garamond font.

Melanie Wang designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Jason McIntosh converted Learning Carbon into DocBook XML from Apple’s native XML format and formatted the book with a program created by Norman Walsh, Lenny Muellner, and Erik Ray. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book; the code font is Constant Willison. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6.

The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell) ...