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This was the first of the Ratio:3 series, a project designed to encourage new collisons of style and content. The brief given to the authors was simple: provide 31 pages for the book. No other instructions were offered, simply a promise from us to publish the results.
This first volume brought together three poets, friends. Ira Cohen, Gerard Malanga and the late Angus Maclise. Receiving the manuscripts caused us a slight (ahem) problem. Poetry requires accurate typesetting, and at the prices we were paying the project looked impossible. Think about it. It's one thing to run a block of prose through a typesetting machine, quite another to make sure each letter/line is accurately placed on the page. Oh, it's possible, but hugely time-consuming.
The solution was to purchase what was then (sometime in 1990) the best dtp package we could (Ventura). We ran this on a chunky 286 with 1MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive. Seriously, we did all our publishing on just that. Plus a beast of a laser printer for producing camera ready copy.
The results were well worth the effort. On the next page is the introductory text, plus some screen shots...R3 more