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| Preface: Read Me First: There are no little things | |
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| One space between sentences | |
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| Spacing after punctuation | |
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| Monospaced versus proportional type | |
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| Quotation marks | |
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| Using real quotation marks | |
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| Avoid this foolish mistake | |
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| Punctuation with quotation marks | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Using real apostrophes | |
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| Where to place the apostrophe | |
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| Dashes | |
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| Using hyphens, en, and em dashes | |
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| Where to use dashes | |
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| Special characters: Using Key Caps to access special characters | |
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| Accent marks | |
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| Placing accent marks over letters | |
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| Chart of the most common accent marks | |
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| Underlining | |
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| Never underline | |
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| Alternatives to underlining | |
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| Capitals | |
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| Avoiding all caps | |
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| A little puzzle | |
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| Kerning: Adjusting the space between letters | |
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| Tabs and indents | |
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| Using first-line indents | |
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| Tabs | |
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| Numbering paragraphs | |
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| Widows and orphans: Recognizing and avoiding them | |
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| Hyphenations and line breaks | |
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| Avoiding hyphenations | |
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| Sensitive line breaks | |
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| Leading, or linespace | |
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| Understanding leading | |
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| Keeping the linespacing consistent | |
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| Adjusting the linespacing of all caps | |
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| Paragraph spacing | |
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| Use space or an indent, not both | |
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| Adjusting the space between paragraphs | |
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| Don't indent first paragraphs | |
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| Justified text | |
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| Optimum line length for justified text | |
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| Rivers | |
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| Hanging the punctuation | |
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| Eliminating visual interruptions of the aligned edge of text | |
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| Non-breaking spaces | |
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| Em, en, and thin spaces | |
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| Serif and sans serif fonts | |
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| Readability, legibility | |
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| Adjusting sans serif for better readability | |
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| Combining typefaces: Using contrast to combine typefaces | |
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| Numerals in odd places | |
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| Fractions | |
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| Superscript and subscript | |
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| Numbers in a list | |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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| Using italic and bold | |
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| Typing A.M. and P.M. | |
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| Aligning baselines | |
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| Allowing white space | |
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| Crowding text in a box | |
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| Typing numbers | |
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| Being consistent | |
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| Listings with bullets | |
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| Abbreviating | |
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| Reducing point size of punctuation | |
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| Italic type | |
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| On the web: Typographic principles on the web: what's different and what's not | |
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| Quiz: Make this prose look more professional | |
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| Compendium of rules--a checklist | |
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| Appendix B | |
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| List of most commonly used special characters and accent marks | |
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| Chart of every accent mark available and how to type them | |
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| Index | |
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| Colophon | |