The Christian Writer's Manual of Style by Robert Hudson

Author:Robert Hudson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines, Religion, Authorship, Literature & the Arts, Christianity
ISBN: 9780310861362
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2010-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

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Proofreading Symbols, Standard | 331

spread—two facing pages

ss, or s/s—same size

stet—Latin for “let it stand”

stripping—putting together the film to make book pages (now largely

computerized)

subhead—the heading subordinate to a larger heading

subscript—letters or number that are set lower than the baseline of type superscript—letters or numbers that are set higher than the baseline of type text type—the typeface used for the text of a book

type page—the text and graphic area of the page, excluding the margins typo—typographical error

uc—uppercase; capital letters

u/lc, or u&lc—upper- and lowercase

verso—left-hand page, with an even number

wf—wrong font

widow—four or fewer lines of type on a page at the end of a chapter

x-height—the height of the letter x in any given font. The following letters are all the x-height letters in the alphabet: a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z.

Proofreading Symbols, Standard

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