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The Mac is not a typewriter Robin Williams

The Mac is not a typewriter By Robin Williams

The Mac is not a typewriter by Robin Williams


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Summary

This bestselling typography primer explains the top twenty type secrets-from em dashes to curly quotes-and provides a simple set of rules that novice desktop publishers can learn quickly and pros can refer back to easily.

The Mac is not a typewriter Summary

The Mac is not a typewriter by Robin Williams

One of the most popular Macintosh books ever published (over 300,000 now in print), The Mac is not a typewritercovers the top twenty things you need to know to make your documents look clean and professional: em dashes, curly quotes, spaces and indents, white space, etc. It's a primer that novices can pick up quickly, and that pros can keep going back to. Winner of the 1991 Benjamin Franklin Award, Computer Book Category.

Table of Contents



Preface.


1. One Space Between Sentences.


2. Quotation Marks.


3. Apostrophes.


4. Dashes.


5. Special Characters.


6. Accent Marks.


7. Underlining.


8. Capitals.


9. Kerning.


10. Fonts.


11. Tabs & Indents.


12. Widows & Orphans.


13. Hyphenations & Line Breaks.


14. Leading, or Linespace.


15. Justified Text.


16. Hanging the punctuation.


17. Serif and Sans Serif Fonts.


18. Combining typefaces.


19. Miscellaneous.


20. Quiz.


Appendix A: Compendium of rules-a checklist.


Appendix B: List of most commonly-used special characters and accent marks.

Additional information

CIN0938151312G
9780938151319
0938151312
The Mac is not a typewriter by Robin Williams
Used - Good
Hardback
Pearson Education (US)
19901231
72
N/A
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