Rules for Compositors and Readers ... at the University Press, OxfordH. Frowde, 1904 - 75 pages |
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abbreviated accent adjective Altesses anglicized words apostrophe APPENDIX V DIVISION Asterisks Bacch Bible Breaklines capital letter CHARLES DICKENS citation commencement compound words consonant denote DIFFICULT SPELLINGS contd DIGRAPHS disyllables divided DIVISION OF WORDS Edition ENDING IN ABLE ENDING IN MENT English compositor English Dictionary ERRATA ERRATUM figures FOREIGN WORDS French FRENCH LANGUAGE full point full stop German GERMAN LANGUAGE GLADSTONE Greek guillemets Haasia Hair spaces HORACE HART hyphen i. e. take ISE OR IZE italic ITALIC TYPE J. A. H. MURRAY LOWER-CASE INITIALS lower-case letters Metal-rules Names of places narrow measures noun numbers omitted Oxford paragraph parentheses PETER SCHOEFFER plural preceding proper names punctuation put in full quotation marks References ROBINSON ELLIS Roman numerals Roman type Saint sense Sheridan small capitals small caps sonants spelt suffix syllable symbols thin space Thuc trepan usage verb verwerflich vowel widely spaced WORDS ENDING
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Page 69 - God) the method of cutting (incidendi) the characters in a matrix, that the letters might easily be singly cast, instead of being cut. He private'y cut matrices for the whole alphabet : and when he showed his master the letters cast from these matrices, Faust was so pleased with the contrivance, that he promised Peter to give him his only daughter Christina in marriage, a promise which he soon after performed. But there were as many difficulties at first -with these letters, as there had been before...
Page 69 - THOUGH a variety of opinions exist as to the individual by whom the art of printing was first discovered ; yet all authorities concur in admitting PETER SCHOEFFER to be the person who invented cast metal types, having learned the art of cutting the letters from the Guttembergs : he is also supposed to have been the first who engraved on copper-plates.
Page 23 - The hyphen need not, as a rule, be used to join an adverb to the adjective which it qualifies, as in: a beautifully furnished house; a well calculated scheme. When the word might not at once be recognized as an adverb, use the hyphen, as: a well-known statesman ; an ill-built house; a new-found country.
Page 24 - When an adverb qualifies a predicate, the hyphen should not be used: as — this fact is well known. Where either (1) a noun and adjective or participle, or (2) an adjective and a noun, in combination, are used as a compound adjective, the hyphen should be used: — a poverty-stricken family, a blood-red hand, a nineteenth-century invention.
Page 23 - There is no rule, propriety, or consensus of usage in English for the use or absence of the hyphen, except in cases where grammar or sense is concerned; as in a day well remembered, but a well-remembered day, the sea of a deep green, a deep-green sea, a baby little expected, a little-expected baby, not a deep green sea, a little expected baby. . . . Avoid Headmaster, because this implies one stress, Headmaster, and would analogically mean "master of heads," like schoolmaster, ironmaster.
Page 42 - The printer's reader inserted a letter n before the or ; the author deleted the n, and thought he had got rid of it ; but at the last moment the press reader inserted it again ; and the word was printed as nor, to the exasperation of the author, who did not mince his words when he found out what had happened.
Page 23 - In many combinations the hyphen becomes an expression of unification of sense. When this unification and specialization has proceeded so far that we no longer analyze the combination into its elements, but take it...
Page 32 - The principle is that the part of the word left at the end of a line should suggest the part commencing the next line. Thus the word 'happiness' should be divided happiness, not hap-piness.1 Roman-ism, Puritan-ism; but Agnosticism, Catholi-cism, criti-cism, fanati-cism, tautolo-gism, witti-cism, &c.
Page 42 - romance,' because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel.
Page 16 - Words of more than one syllable, ending with one consonant preceded by one vowel, and accented on the last syllable, double that consonant on adding -ed...