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MacKellar's American Printer (1893): what it says about spacing, justifying and paragraphs
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A reading note for book designers and typographers on the composing sections of an 1893 hand-typesetting manual: word spacing, filling out justified lines, note type size and paragraph indents. It reads only part of one text, and applying its metal-type rules to digital layout is the note's own inference.
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MacKellar's American Printer (1893): what it says about spacing, justifying and paragraphs
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A reading note for book designers and typographers on the composing sections of an 1893 hand-typesetting manual: word spacing, filling out justified lines, note type size and paragraph indents. It reads only part of one text, and applying its metal-type rules to digital layout is the note's own inference.
Useful starting points
- The manual treats even spacing across a whole page, not just single lines, as a mark of good composing.
- It says a paragraph's closing line should not open a new page, and adjusts page length to avoid that.
- Its note-type and spacing sizes are for metal type; converting them to screen points is inference.
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