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PROGRESS REPORT Apr 2023

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Re-designed front page

You will see at once that the 'front page' has been re-arranged. Under 'Browse by name' you can easily focus on any of the most frequent rôles, artist publisher etc., or search by Series title, Subject, or Illustration method. (Sub-arrangement is alphabetical.)

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Statistical charts are now available

An important improvement is the displaying of statistical data for any of these rôles, 'artists' etc. You can now take a link 'SHOW CHART' (near the caption of the list) to display statistics in bar charts, and toggle back afterwards. The coloured bars displayed are live links to take you to the records for the selected books.

In the bar charts the artists (or whatever) are shown in 5-year brackets across the time axis, and the size of their contribution by the height of the bar. The toggle link 'HIDE CHART' will close the chart and return you to the page where you started.

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Recent additions/revisions

Progress has been slow since my last report (P.H.N. 58, 2018), concentrated on correcting mis-spellings etc.

Among the records recently added or revised are: Lzf1, Oi, Ix, Ji, Oj, Mzi, Jl.

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Typeface bar charts

Finally you can still search by specific Typeface, ...

If you search by typeface, and choose 'ALL' the bar chart will show dramaticly how (say) Plantin and Times feature much less than you might expect. Similarly the later dominance of Baskerville and Bembo is shown, and the late arrival of Ehrhardt in WW2,

As before, from any record visitors can take a link to send comments/corrections through to the editor.