s?
54. What should be avoided in wide measures?
55. How should you treat words of two syllables pronounced as one?
56. How should hyphenated compounds be treated?
57. What should you do with divisional marks?
58. How should you treat amounts stated in figures?
59. How should you treat proper names?
60. How are initials and similar combinations treated?
61. What is the rule about the last word on a page?
62. What is the rule about the last word of the last full line of a
paragraph?
63. What is the rule about divisions in successive lines?
64. What is the rule about division generally?
65. What effect has spacing on deciding about division?
66. What effect has length of measure on division?
67. What can you do when the text presents unusual difficulty as to spacing
and division?
68. What is the rule about division in lines of display, and what is the
reason for it?
69. What is the usage with regard to division on title pages?
70. What can you say about eccentricities in the author's or customer's
ideas about division and lay-out?
* * * * *
As in the other volumes of this Part, the instructor should not content
himself with having the student learn the rules. He should give drills in
spelling and pronunciation and should give problems in composition
involving the application of rules. Constant and prolonged practice is
indispensable to proficiency in all these matters.
TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES
The following list of publications, comprising the TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL
SERIES FOR APPRENTICES, has been prepared under the supervision of the
Committee on Education of the United Typothetae of America for use in trade
classes, in course of printing instruction, and by individuals.
Each publication has been compiled by a competent author or group of
authors, and carefully edited, the purpose being to provide the printers of
the United States--employers, journeymen, and apprentices--with a
comprehensive series of handy and inexpensive compendiums of reliable,
up-to-date information upon the various branches and specialties of the
printing craft, all arranged in orderly fashion for progressive study.
The publications of the series are of uniform size, 5x8 inches. Their
general make-up, in typography, illustrations, etc., has been, as far as
practicable, kept in harmony throughout. A brief synopsis of the particular
contents an
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