The style and appearance of printed matter. The art or procedure of arranging type.
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How many spaces should come after a period/full stop?
In the past — or at least, when I was in elementary school — periods/full stops were followed by two spaces. Lately, it's become more and more common to see just one space. In the modern ...
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Space before three dots? [duplicate]
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What is the proper way of using triple dots and spaces before/after them?
Should there be a space before three dots?
Examples:
I don't know if this is good...
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Capitalisation of nouns in English in the 17th and 18th centuries
It seems to have been common practice in the 17th and 18th centuries in Britain to capitalise the first letters of nouns in English, e.g.
At which Time he prov'd himself the Noah's Dove, that ...
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Use of “f ” instead of “s” in historic, printed English documents
I was at a museum in London yesterday, and one of the items on exhibit is a document from the eighteenth century. It uses the letter f a lot where s should be used—for example, in Majefty.
Did the ...
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When a dagger is used to indicate a note, must it come after an asterisk?
The typographical symbol dagger (†) has several meanings. Possibly its most common use is as a footnote marker.
According to You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies ...
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Historical reasons of footnotes' sequence symbols
As @Mahnax answered to this question, the footnotes' sequence symbols is as follows (Chicago Manual of Style Online):
* (asterisk; but do not use if p values occur in the table; see 3.78)
† ...
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How should blockquoted quotations be formatted?
If I quote someone in a context where a blockquote is appropriate and there isn't lead-in prose which identifies the source, how should it be typeset? I'm quoting a saying or remark, as would be done ...
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What are the names of the pieces of a question mark?
A question mark ? seems to be composed of two distinct pieces, top and bottom. Do these pieces have their own names, and if so, what are they?
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Pronunciation of the letter 'W' [closed]
Why is the letter 'W' pronounced like double-'U' in English and pronounced as double-'V' in French? I've always wondered this. Typographically, the letter 'W' can be written with curvy bottoms (sorry ...
