Typesetting

About this eBook

Author

Stewart, A. A. (Alexander A.)

Title

Typesetting A primer of information about working at the case, justifying, spacing, correcting, making-up, and other operations employed in setting type by hand

Credits

Produced by Barbara Tozier, Andrew Wainwright, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

Z: Bibliography, Library science

Subject

Printing

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46113

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46113

Release Date

June 27, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Transcriber’s Note
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS — TYPESETTING
5. 5.Introductory
6. 6.Preliminary Suggestions
7. 7.Learning the Case
8. 8.Units for Measuring
9. 9.Spaces and Quads
10. 10.A Simple Spacing Table
11. 11.Hair Spaces and Justifiers
12. 12.Leads and Slugs
13. 13.Setting the Composing Stick
14. 14.Use of the Composing Rule
15. 15.Setting Type
16. 16.Justifying the Lines
17. 17.Emptying the Stick
18. 18.Tying Up the Page
19. 19.Taking Proofs
20. 20.Making Corrections
21. 21.Importance of Uniform Spacing
22. 22.Rules for Spacing
23. 23.Spacing of Italic
24. 24.Spacing Capital Letters
25. 25.Wide Spacing
26. 26.Paragraph and Other Indentions
27. 27.Setting Poetry
28. 28.Headings
29. 29.Initial Letters
30. 30.Making Up Pages
31. 31.Washing Type
32. 32.Distributing Type
33. 33.SUPPLEMENTARY READING
34. 34.REVIEW QUESTIONS
35. 35.GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS
36. 36.TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES
37. 37.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
38. 38.CONTRIBUTORS — For Composition and Electrotypes — For Composition — For Electrotypes — For Engravings — For Book Paper
39. 39.Transcriber’s Notes

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