Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books / by Charles Thomas Jacobi.

  • Charles Thomas Jacobi
Date:
1890
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Credit: Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books / by Charles Thomas Jacobi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    out and there is not sufficient room for the next word, the rule laid down as to reducing or increasing the spacing according to the solid or leaded character of the work, must he considered. Dividing words by means of the hyphen should not often he resorted to if the line can be fairly spaced without having too much or little between the words. In wide measures, supposing the type is not a very large one, there should be no excuse for dividing words; where necessary to do so in narrower measures, do not break words in two following lines. When the line has been spaced and justified, put the lead in, if the work be leaded, and lift the setting rule out, placing it in front again preparatory to setting another line. Certain extra spaces are required after the double points,, to give, as it were, emphasis to the value of these punctua¬ tion marks; thus an en quadrat should be placed after a semi¬ colon (;),note of admiration (!), note of interrogation (?),and colon (:)—each of these points should have a thin space in front of it if thev are cast on a thin shank—if a beard on the inside, a hair space only, but if an extra large beard, nothing whatever; also, if the spacing of the line has to be altered more or less, the spaces after these points should be altered too, proportionately. Commas and full points (as full stops or periods are called) should be placed quite close up to the last letter of the word. An em quadrat is placed after a full point in a run-on sentence. The last line of a paragraph, if a short one, is spaced out with quadrats. Commas should only have the usual thick space after them. Parentheses ( ) and brackets [ ] are usually placed close up at either end, and the second (or closing) one is formed by simply turning it round—the nick to the back. Turned commas (“) used for quotations are made by reversing two commas and placing a space after them the closed ones are formed of two apostrophes (”). When the stick is filled line by line it has to be emptied..