Using Samba

Colophon

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The animal on the cover of Using Samba is a African ground hornbill (Bucorvus cafer). This type of bird is one of fifty hornbill species. The African ground hornbill is a medium to large sized bird characterized by a bright red waddle under a very long beak, dark-colored body and wings, long eyelashes, and short legs. Like all hornbills, it has a casque, a large but lightweight growth on the top of its beak, which grows more folds as the bird ages. It is the only ground-dwelling species of hornbill, though it is able to fly when necessary. It lives in the grasslands of southern and eastern Africa, and nests in the foliage of dense trees, not in nest holes in the ground as other hornbills do. Its diet includes mostly fruit, as well as large insects and small mammals. The African ground hornbill is considered to be sacred by many Africans, and as such this bird is part of many legends and superstitions.

Sarah Jane Shangraw was the production editor and proofreader for Using Samba. Sarah Lemaire copyedited the text. Maureen Dempsey and Claire Cloutier LeBlanc provided quality control. Brenda Miller wrote the index.

Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book based on her own series design. The cover image of an African ground hornbill is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Kathleen Wilson produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 3.32 using Adobe’s ITC Garamond font. Kathleen Wilson also created the CD design.

Alicia Cech designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Mike Sierra implemented the design in FrameMaker 5.5. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Rhon Porter using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. Interior composition was done by Sarah Jane Shangraw, Sebastian Banker, Jeff Holcolmb, and Abigail Myers. This colophon was written by Nicole Arigo.

The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff Liggett.