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Use titling figures with full caps, and text figures in all other circumstances When arabic numerals joined the roman alphabet, they too were given both lowercase and uppercase forms. Typographers call the former text figures, hanging figures, lowercase ...
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Set opening paragraphs flush left The function of a paragraph indent is to mark a pause, setting the paragraph apart from what precedes it. If a paragraph is preceded by ...
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In continuous text mark all paragraphs after the first with an indent of at least one en Ornaments [...] drop lines [...] outdented paragraphs [...] and others, have their uses but the plainest, most unmistakable yet unobtrusive way of marking paragraphs is ...
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Set opening paragraphs flush left The function of a paragraph indent is to mark a pause, setting the paragraph apart from what precedes it. If a paragraph is preceded by ...
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In continuous text mark all paragraphs after the first with an indent of at least one en Ornaments [...] drop lines [...] outdented paragraphs [...] and others, have their uses but the plainest, most unmistakable yet unobtrusive way of marking paragraphs is ...
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Don't compose without a scale In the sixteenth century, a series of common sizes developed among European typographers, and the series survived with little change and few additions for 400 years. ...
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Don't compose without a scale In the sixteenth century, a series of common sizes developed among European typographers, and the series survived with little change and few additions for 400 years. ...
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Never begin a page with the last line of a multi-line paragraph The stub-ends left when paragraphs end on the first line of a page are called widows. They have a past but not a future, and ...
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Never begin a page with the last line of a multi-line paragraph The stub-ends left when paragraphs end on the first line of a page are called widows. They have a past but not a future, and ...
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Hyphenate according to the conventions of the language In English one hyphenates cab-ri-o-let but in French ca-brio-let. The conventions of the individual language should, ideally, be followed even for single foreign words or ...
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Hyphenate according to the conventions of the language In English one hyphenates cab-ri-o-let but in French ca-brio-let. The conventions of the individual language should, ideally, be followed even for single foreign words or ...
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Avoid more than three consecutive hyphenated lines
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Avoid more than three consecutive hyphenated lines
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Line short numerical and mathematical expressions with hard spaces Hard spaces are useful for preventing line-breaks within phrases such as 6.2 mm, 3 in., 4 × 4, or in phrases like page 3 and chapter 5.
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At hyphenated line-ends, leave at least two characters behind and take at least three forward Fi-nally is a conventionally acceptable line-end hyphenation, but final-ly is not, because it takes too little of the word ahead to the next line.