Rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford
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In printing and publishing houses Hart is a household word. First printed in 1893, specifically for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford, and first published (in its 15th edition) in 1904, this little book of Rules has become indispensable to all professionals, and widely useful to others concerned with the business of putting words into print -- which includes such matters as alternative spellings, punctuation, capitalization, italicization, abbreviations, and many other details. Recent editions have seen the gradual expansion of the Foreign Languages section. This, the 39t...
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- RULES FOR COMPOSITORS AND READERS At the University Press, Oxford
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- SOME WORDS ENDING IN -ABLE
- FOOTNOTES:
- SOME WORDS ENDING IN -IBLE
- SOME WORDS ENDING IN -ISE or -IZE
- SOME ALTERNATIVE OR DIFFICULT SPELLINGS
- FOOTNOTES:
- SOME WORDS ENDING IN -MENT
- FOOTNOTES:
- HYPHENED AND NON-HYPHENED WORDS[21]
- FOOTNOTES:
- DOUBLING CONSONANTS WITH SUFFIXES
- FOOTNOTES:
- FORMATION OF PLURALS IN WORDS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN
- FOOTNOTES:
- ERRATA, ERRATUM
- PLURALS OF NOUNS ENDING IN -O
- FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES WHEN TO BE SET IN ROMAN AND WHEN IN ITALIC
- FOOTNOTES:
- SPELLINGS OF FIFTEENTH TO SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WRITERS
- PHONETIC SPELLINGS
- A OR AN
- FOOTNOTES:
- O AND OH
- NOR AND OR
- FOOTNOTES:
- VOWEL-LIGATURES[38] (Æ AND Œ)
- CONTRACTIONS
- FOOTNOTES:
- POETRY
- CAPITAL LETTERS
- LOWER-CASE INITIALS
- SMALL CAPITALS
- FOOTNOTES:
- SPECIAL SIGNS OR SYMBOLS
- SPACING
- ITALIC TYPE
- FOOTNOTES:
- REFERENCES TO AUTHORITIES
- DIVISION OF WORDS
- FOOTNOTES:
- PUNCTUATION
- FOOTNOTES:
- FIGURES AND NUMERALS
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX I POSSESSIVE CASE OF PROPER NAMES
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX II WORKS IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX III WORKS IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE[86]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX IV DIVISION OF LATIN WORDS
- APPENDIX V DIVISION OF GREEK WORDS
- FOOTNOTES:
- MARKS USED IN THE CORRECTION OF PROOFS
- SOME ENGLISH NAMES OF TYPES
- GENERAL INDEX
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