The Mac is not a typewriter

Robin Williams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

72 Seiten

1990
Peachpit Press Publications (Verlag)
978-0-938151-31-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.1990
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 230 x 181 mm
• Gewicht: 127 g
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server ► Macintosh / Mac OS X
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• ISBN-10: 0-938151-31-2 / 0938151312
• ISBN-13: 978-0-938151-31-9 / 9780938151319
• Zustand: Neuware