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; (1910)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 72
Ill COMPOUND WOEDS … >ORDS of variable spelling are rare inordinary copy, but words that maybe compounded are frequent. Whento set up two meeting words as twowords, when to consolidate them inone word, when to connect them with a hyphen,are problems that the compositor has to decidealmost every hour. He finds it…
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