Harpel's typograph : or Book of specimens containing useful information, suggestions and a collection of examples of letterpress job printing arranged for the assistance of master printers, amateurs, apprentices, and others, (1870)
Harpel, Oscar H. (Oscar Henry), b. 1828 · Cincinnati : Printed and published by the author · leaf 33
of two points together—for instance, a comma after a perioddenoting an abbreviated word or initial—is now ignored by most good jobprinters. It certainly does not improve a display line to have two pointsnext each other. In book work, however, both points are generally used. In composing curved… … (No 3.)
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