GLOSSARY OF TYPESETTING TERMS

Eckersley, Richard Et Al

ISBN 10: 0226183718 / ISBN 13: 9780226183718

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1994

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Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, very small stain to FFE has bled through to 1/2 title page else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with light rubbing to edges, bumping & creasing to head of spine else bright, intact and whole. W.04; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 001742

Bibliographic Details

Title: GLOSSARY OF TYPESETTING TERMS

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Glossary of Typesetting Terms is an up-to-date reference book on the craft of typography. It organizes a dictionary and a style guide into a single, one-stop resource.

Prepared by a team of leading professionals—a designer, an editor, compositors, and production managers—this glossary will be valuable to anyone who works in publishing or printing for its definitions of typographical terms and concise treatment of typographical style.

The glossary adds important details to discussions of typography that are covered more generally in editorial style guides such as The Chicago Manual of Style. It is indispensable to anyone who prepares text for a living, including those who implement their own typesetting decisions with the aid of word-processing and page-layout software.

This manual furnishes a common technical vocabulary for specialists and nonspecialists alike. More than 900 entries provide up-to-date meanings for traditional terms like kerning,bleed, and thumbnail and definitions of new phrases like global search and replace,H & J (hyphenation and justification), and idiot file that have been developed to describe the role of computer technology in typesetting.

Eight appendixes offer additional guidance. The house style sheets of a major typesetter provide a sample checklist of items that affect the way in which words are composed into professional-quality type. Other appendixes cover families of type, the parts of a book, diagrams of the parts of a letter, coding and marking a manuscript in the precise language of typesetters, writing specifications for tables, proofreaders’ marks, and special characters.

No other reference book makes the vocabulary and practices of contemporary typesetting so accessible.