20 · Authors and typesetting

An entry names its author, and an author is a separate record with a pen name and a signature under photographs. A site run by two people therefore need not be two sites, nor one site with signatures typed in by hand.

Attached to an author is also the way the entry's first letter is set: dropped into the text or raised above the first line. It sounds like a trifle until two hands stand side by side in one stream — then the difference in typesetting does work no name label will do.

The same setting carries over into the book, so a volume gathered from two series looks as the entries looked on the site. Authors a site does not have cost nothing — a one-person instance names one and thinks about it no further.