Typesetting
- Subtitle
- A primer of information about working at the case, justifying, spacing, correcting, making-up, and other operations employed in setting type by hand
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Table of contents
1. Transcriber’s Note2. PREFACE3. Introductory4. Preliminary Suggestions5. Learning the Case6. Units for Measuring7. Spaces and Quads8. A Simple Spacing Table9. Hair Spaces and Justifiers10. Leads and Slugs11. Setting the Composing Stick12. Use of the Composing Rule13. Setting Type14. Justifying the Lines15. Emptying the Stick16. Tying Up the Page17. Taking Proofs18. Making Corrections19. Importance of Uniform Spacing20. Rules for Spacing21. Spacing of Italic22. Spacing Capital Letters23. Wide Spacing24. Paragraph and Other Indentions25. Setting Poetry26. Headings27. Initial Letters28. Making Up Pages29. Washing Type30. Distributing Type31. SUPPLEMENTARY READING32. REVIEW QUESTIONS33. GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS34. TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES35. ACKNOWLEDGMENT36. CONTRIBUTORS37. Transcriber’s Notes