User:Hraban

Henning Hraban Ramm: I'm a typesetter (media designer), printing engineer and programmer, living in Limburg, Germany. I’m also part of Dreiviertelhaus publishers. (Employed as a technical editor, I’m making machine manuals with LaTeX.)

I use ConTeXt mostly for books, magazines, correspondence (invoices, letters) and for some automated tasks.

Some of my ConTeXt powered publications:

• Edition KA (literary studies, history, literature/media criticism):
  • Lauf los, Buch – interviews with known authors
  • 33 beste Kinderfilme – recommended movies for children
  • Schundfaktor – media criticism essays
  • Alternative Außenpolitik – about the relationship of GDR’s unions and the international brigades in Franco’s Spain
  • Max Tau und der Neue Verlag – about a German emigrant publisher
• Architectural Guides (on buildings in Bonn):
  • 13 HICOG-Siedlungen – post-war US settlements in Bonn
  • 12 Stadthalle Bad Godesberg – city (concert/congress) hall
  • 11 Bauten der Universität – some buildings of Bonn university
  • 10 Didinkirica – a high density housing area on historical grounds
  • 09 Kunsthalle – an art exhibition hall
  • 08 Kirchen der Nordstadt – churches in the north of Bonn
  • St.Paul – the highway church near Wittlich
• Werkbuch series on creative writing:
  • 01 Vogue! Pose! by Crauss
  • 02 Unkreatives Schreiben by Crauss
  • 03 Biographisches Schreiben by Crauss
• Literature:
  • Paul oder: Besuche in der Bilderkammer – novella by Gudrun Hammer
  • Dienstag mit Taube – short stories by Bettina Strang
  • Das Erlebnis des Tischlers Jossi in dem wunderlichen Hotel P. – philosophical novel by Dietmar Hübner
  • Graphit und Bindestrich – drawings and short stories by Hans-Gerd Pyka
  • Mip und die Baumleute – children’s book about tree spirits by Annette Schwarz von Specht
  • Die weisse Eule – autobiography by Swiss shaman Adrian Osswald
  • Nebenwelt – elven tales by Annette Schwarz von Specht and Ulrich Lechner
• Other books:
  • Hellenistic Astronomy ed. by Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg (most design done by Alan)
  • Psychologisches Managementwissen kompakt – psychological management textbook
  • Hinter Mendig gelandet – cultural history of the Eifel, by Alexander Kleinschrodt
• Magazines/journals:
  • CG journal – proceedings of ConTeXt meetings, since 2019
  • Kritische Ausgabe – magazine on German literature (since issue #34, I adapted the original design)
  • Aestimatio/Interpretatio – journals on the history of science (most work is done by the director Alan C. Bowen himself)

I used to maintain the LilyPond module (now replaced by a filter setup, a bridge between ConTeXt (MkIV/LMTX) and GNU LilyPond, the latter being the best music typesetting (“engraving”) system since manual engraving. As a collector and singer of folk songs I use the ConTeXt-LilyPond team to produce beautiful songbooklets for my friends, recently also as eBooks.

You can find some of my projects, including ConTeXt stuff, in my public git repository or on my homepage.