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Contents Note: |
Contents: Part I Manuscript 1 -- Technicalities of Form 3 -- Physical Form 3 -- Final Reading of the Manuscript 8 -- Author's Alterations 9 -- Editorial Marks 10 -- Style 12 -- Topical Heads 14 -- Excerpts 17 -- Special Responsibilities of the Book Writer 45 -- Front Matter 46 -- Back Matter 48 -- Legal Areas of Particular Concern to the Author 48 -- The Copyright Law 48 -- Libel 52 -- The Right of Privacy 54 -- Part II Copy and Proof 55 -- Workers on Copy and Proof 57 -- Editor or Copy Editor 57 -- The Production Department 61 -- Layout 61 -- Front Matter 62 -- Back Matter 68 -- Work on Proof 69 -- Galley Proofs 70 -- Page Proofs 74 -- Indexes by Names 77 -- Compiling a Dictionary-Style Index 79 -- Alphabetical Order 90 -- Typography of Indexes 93 -- Part III Copy-Editing Style 97 -- Style 99 -- Symbols and Signs 120 -- Numbers 125 -- Italics 136 -- Capitalization 142 -- Capitals to Mark Beginnings 142 -- Titles, Headings, Legends 146 -- Proper Nouns and Adjectives 148 -- Punctuation 172 -- Semicolon 182 -- Comma 184 -- Em Dash 206 -- En Dash 210 -- Two-Em Dash 211 -- Parentheses 211 -- Brackets 212 -- Quotation Marks 213 -- Apostrophe 222 -- Hyphen 223 -- Points of Ellipsis 225 -- Compound Words 226 -- Division of Words 237 -- Part IV Typographical Style 241 -- Elements of Typographical Style 243 -- Leading 243 -- Spacing 244 -- Indention 246 -- Problems of Typographical Style 247 -- Headings 247 -- Initials 250 -- Synopses 252 -- Epigraphical Quotations 253 -- Excerpts 253 -- Number columns 257 -- Tables without figures 258 -- Ditto marks 258 -- Captions 258 -- Column heads or boxheads 259 -- Captions and Legends 263 -- Details of Page Makeup 269 -- Typography of Various Forms 274 -- Fiction 274 -- Poetry 275 -- Plays 276 -- Writings on Religion 279 -- Letters 280 -- Legal Writing 281 -- Mathematical and Scientific Writing 283 -- Composition of Foreign Languages 288 -- Danish 288 -- Dutch 289 -- French 289 -- German 299 -- Classic Greek 307 -- Hebrew 310 -- Italian 316 -- Latin 318 -- Norwegian 320 -- Polish 320 -- Portuguese 321 -- Russian 321 -- Spanish 327 -- Swedish 334 -- Phonetics 334 -- Part V Grammar 339 -- Verbs 341 -- Voice 341 -- Mood 342 -- Tense 344 -- Auxiliaries 347 -- Agreement 349 -- Nouns 357 -- Number 357 -- Possessive Case 358 -- Pronouns 361 -- Case 361 -- Antecedents 362 -- Adjectives and Adverbs 368 -- Articles 372 -- Indefinite Articles 372 -- Definite Article 373 -- Conjunctions 374 -- Coordinating Conjunctions 374 -- Subordinating Conjunctions 376 -- Correlative Conjunctions 380 -- Prepositions 381 -- Sentence Structure 384 -- Position of Modifiers 385 -- Omissions 389 -- Part VI Use of Words 405 -- Wordiness 407 -- Trite Expressions 411 -- Appropriateness 415 -- The Right Preposition 432 -- Words Likely to be Misused or Confused 446 -- Spelling 469 -- The "EI" or "IE" Difficulty 469 -- Forming Derivatives by Adding Suffixes 470 -- Troublesome Suffixes 472 -- Formation of Plurals 473 -- Formation of the Possessive Case 478 -- Ordinary Words that Cause Troble 481 -- Foreign Words and Phrases 481 -- Bibliography for Parts V and VI 487 -- Book Publishers 488 -- Part VII Typography and Illustration 489 -- The Size of the Book 491 -- Casting Off 491 -- Trim Size 493 -- Type Page 494 -- The Mechanics of Composition 496 -- Hot Metal Composition 496 -- Type 497 -- Type Measurement 501 -- Classification of Typefaces 504 -- Choice of Size and Face 506 -- Computing the Length in Type 509 -- Typesetting 511 -- Cold Type Composition 511 -- Photocomposition or Phototypesetting 514 -- Sample Pages 516 -- Proofs 517 -- The Mechanics of Printing 518 -- Letterpress 518 -- Offset Lithography or Photo-Offset 519 -- Paper 524 -- Book Sizes 530 -- Binding 530. |