The Mac is Not a Typewriter
One of the most popular Macintosh books ever published, The Mac is Not a Typewriter has been referred to as the "Strunk and White of typography." The revised edition continues in the tradition of the original by providing simple, logical principles for using type to produce beautiful, professional documents. It's updated to include a revised chapter on fonts and also reflects changes in software and hardware since the original edition published in 1990. Some topics include: real vs. generic...
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One of the most popular Macintosh books ever written, The Mac is not a typewriter has been called the "Strunk and White of typography." Best-selling author Robin Williams's simple, logical principles for using type to produce beautiful, professional documents are as true now as they were when the original edition was published in 1989. This updated edition includes new examples and expanded information dedicated to the practical advice that made the first edition an enduring bestseller. Throughout, Robin shows you the small details that separate the pros from the amateurs: typographer versus typewriter quotation marks, en and em dashes, tabs and indents, kerning, leading, white space, widows and orphans, and hanging punctuation. If you prepare documents, you'll find The Mac is not a typewriter, Second Edition an indispensable guide. And those who read your documents will recognize the work of a pro, even if they don't know a curly quote from curly fries. School Library Journal YA-- Using 19 short lessons, this concise, simple style manual directs a Macintosh user on how to produce professional quality manuscripts. Punctuation and grammar hints are coupled with instructions for manipulating the Mac to the writer's advantage. It is aimed at desktop publishers as well as novice writers seeking a polished look for term papers.
Preface11Read Me First1One space between sentences132Quotation marks153Apostrophes194Dashes215Special characters256Accent marks297Underlining318Capitals339Kerning3510Tabs and indents3711Widows and orphans4512Hyphenations and line breaks4713Leading, or linespace5114Paragraph spacing5515Justified text5916Hanging the punctuation6117Serif and sans serif fonts6318Combining typefaces6519Numerals in odd places6920Miscellaneous7121On the web7622Quiz: Make this prose look more professional78App. ACompendium of rules - a checklist81App. BList of most commonly used special characters and accent marks; chart of every accent mark available and how to type them83Index86Colophon88
\ School Library JournalYA-- Using 19 short lessons, this concise, simple style manual directs a Macintosh user on how to produce professional quality manuscripts. Punctuation and grammar hints are coupled with instructions for manipulating the Mac to the writer's advantage. It is aimed at desktop publishers as well as novice writers seeking a polished look for term papers.\ \
