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| Preface | xix | |
| 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 | |
| Footnotes | 22 | |
| Tables | 32 | |
| Bibliographies | 37 | |
| Illustrations | 43 | |
| 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 | |
| The Editor | 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 | 76 | |
| 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 | |
| Abbreviations | 100 | |
| 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 | |
| Footnotes | 254 | |
| Tables | 255 | |
| Number columns | 257 | |
| Tables without figures | 258 | |
| Ditto marks | 258 | |
| Captions | 258 | |
| Column heads or boxheads | 259 | |
| Captions and Legends | 263 | |
| Bibliographies | 266 | |
| 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 | |
| Glossary of Grammatical Terms | 391 | |
| 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 | |
| Illustrations | 520 | |
| Paper | 524 | |
| Book Sizes | 530 | |
| Binding | 530 | |
| Bibliography | 532 | |
| Glossary of Printing and Allied Terms | 535 | |
| Index | 549 |
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