User:Hraban

Henning Hraban Ramm: I'm a self-employed typesetter (media designer), printing engineer and programmer, living in Limburg, Germany. I’m also part of Dreiviertelhaus publishers (German linguistics, history and architecture).

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
• Literature:
  • 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
• 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) 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.

Another toy project: fiëé croisée, a crossword puzzle generator with ConTeXt and LaTeX export.

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