Typographic Practice

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Page figures reckoned as of margin

144

The chapter and the section of the book be specified in the running title, the chapter

right page.

may

and the section on the right page, from the words of the running with brackets. This revival of an old fashion

name on

the left

each fenced title is

now

a

off

common

practice,

but

it

cannot be con-

sidered as a grace to any modern page. The running title that consists of the very long name of the book is sometimes divided so that one half only of this name will appear on one page and the other half on the facing page. Nor is this a

commendable fashion, for a

line of

many words

can seldom be evenly divided if it is not so divided, one heading will be longer than the other. The continuous repetition of the name of the ;

book

in its

running

title,

when

that

name

is

well

wearisome and needless useful when it exis most This title formality. defines the matter on the some extent to or plains refer not to the should and this explanation page, first but to the last paragraph on that page. In pamphlets or books that have no running

known

to the reader, is a

the paging figure is put in the centre of the head-line, but it need not be inclosed in parentheses or brackets, nor have attached colons, dashes, or any other attempt at finish. If the first line of type title,

contains nothing but the paging figure, this first and the blank below it must be reckoned in

line

the imposition of the form on the stone as a part If these practical of the head margin of the page.


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