About the author. Filippo Rusconi is a senior research scientist at the French national research council (Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, CNRS). Filippo has a background in biochemistry and organic chemistry and was trained during his Ph.D. as a bioanalytical chemist. He has extensive knowledge of analytical techniques involved in the study of biopolymers.
Filippo Rusconi is the author of a handbook about mass spectrometry for biochemists (French). The book was published by the French sci/tech publisher Lavoisier.
Colophon. The look of this book (PDF file) is the result of me having read many books from the O'Reilly publisher.
The frog on the book title page is a frog from Papua. This frog is able to hover when performing downwards leaps. This picture is courtesy http://www.papuaweb.org
The typesetting of the book has been done on a Debian GNU/Linux computer using only Free Software. Use of the DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite (DAPS) from SUSE was key in the process.
The layout adopted for this book is an adaptation of the SUSE stylesheets. I would like to thank Frank Sundermeyer <fsundermeyer@opensuse.org> and Stefan Knorr <sknorr@suse.de> for being helpful with all my questions.
The main font used was EBGaramond and the symbol/mathematical font was from the STIX project (font: STIX2Math).
The screen shots were taken with Spectacle, the screen capture program shipped along with my KDE desktop environment and resampled using The GNU image manipulation program The Gimp. Illustrations were done in Inkscape, a vectorial drawing software.