A great deal of excitement was generated at the Typefounding: Past and Future conference at Oxford this summer, partly for the sheer exuberance of those taking part whose passion for type is obvious, but partly because inevitably schemes were voiced - tentatively in some cases and more robustly in others - for ways by making letterpress type, especially the historic faces, more readily available.

Editorial.

This year the literate world celebrates the two thousandth anniversary of the death in 19BC of the Roman poet Virgil.

Notebook for December.