Simon Cozens – Global typesetting with SILE

»Hard things about multilingual typesetting.« Kyoto based missionary, computer programmer and publisher Simon Cozens opens up his charming report by confessing that he is not a studied designer at all.

So how was he introduced to the astonishingly complex field of multilingual type setting? It was a conversation with a friend, a Bible publisher, that convinced him that there was a need for a new typesetting solution, designed from the ground up and so SILE was born.

»Since then, he has barely slept.«