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What a 1919 typesetting primer says about verse indents, heading kinds and initial letters

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For designers and self-publishers laying out poetry pages, headings and opening initials. It reports what three sections of A. A. Stewart's 1919 Typesetting say and adds a short checklist for one invented page. It is a reading of those sections only, not a test, and the primer says nothing about digital layout.

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What a 1919 typesetting primer says about verse indents, heading kinds and initial letters

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For designers and self-publishers laying out poetry pages, headings and opening initials. It reports what three sections of A. A. Stewart's 1919 Typesetting say and adds a short checklist for one invented page. It is a reading of those sections only, not a test, and the primer says nothing about digital layout.

Useful starting points

  • The primer warns that initials are often overdone and that a second style of initial or decoration on the same page is best avoided.
  • It says the gap to the right of an initial should look equal to the gap beneath it, and neither should be extra wide.
  • Reading a letterpress em or point size as the same unit in digital layout is the note's own inference, not the primer's statement.
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