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.
Since 2017 I’m working on a ConTeXt manual in German; “Drucksachen gestalten mit ConTeXt und LuaMetaTeX” will finally get published in March 2026 by Lehmanns (Thalia Fachinformationen) in their DANTE series.
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):
- 15 Reutersiedlung – post-war settlement
- 14 Hotel Bristol – 1970s hotel
- 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:
- Der Tag, an dem ich meinen besten Freund sterben ließ – stories by Dietmar Hübner
- Falterspuren – novel by Katrin Wegner
- Gesicht zur Wand – novel by Hans-Gerd Pyka
- 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 (oop)
- Die weisse Eule – autobiography by Swiss shaman Adrian Osswald (oop)
- Nebenwelt – elven tales by Annette Schwarz von Specht and Ulrich Lechner (oop)
- Other books:
- Charlotte Blume-Arends – research biography about a pianist, a student of Franz Liszt’s
- 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
- Alles über Ruth – und seitdem – poetry by Crauss
- 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’m not involved any more)
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.
You can find some of my projects, including ConTeXt stuff, in my public git repository or on my homepage.
- Tools:
- Styles & Modules:
- folders – typeset directory trees
- ConTeXt for pres(id)ent(ations) – slide styles
- simpleslides – slide styles by Aditya Mahajan and Thomas A. Schmitz
- CGJ – rewrite of the context group journal style (WIP)
- DTK – including ConTeXt articles in DANTE’s Die TeXnische Komödie (WIP)
- messenger chats – typeset chats with speech bubbles, like in a messenger app (WIP)
- mirror of the statistical charts module by Tamara Kocurová, Adriana Kašparová and Tomáš Hála