The practice of typography; correct composition; a treatise on spelling, abbreviations, the compounding and division of words, the proper use of figures and numerals, italic and capital letters, notes. etc., with observations on punctuation and proof-reading (1902)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 87
-engine stock-raising stumbling-block subject-matter table-land terra-cotta text-book text-wiiter title-page trade-wind water-mark water-proof way-bill way-station well-being wide-spread wrong-doer Compound words often cause over-wide spacing,but the gaps so made may be modified by puttinga thin… … IV FIGURES AND NUMERALS RABIC FIGURES are not always tobe repeated in type as written in themanuscript copy. In the descriptivetext of a standard booli; numbers butoccasionally presented are more pleas-ing in words. Figures should be avoided as muchas possible for all numl)ers l)ut those of dates.…
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