Types for preface and introduction and too often
indistinct.
roman lower-case
is
more
A
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small size of plain It must be
acceptable.
when
it crowds the space needed and the text type. Sentences in a synopsis are often separated by an em dash, but the period before the dash is not needed a thin space before and after is better. Two or three periods a thick space apart and without any dash make a more pleasing mark of separation. The synopsis is usually set in hanging indention, which should
set in small type
for the initial letter
;
not be greater than that of the paragraphs of the Indentions of three or more ems make the text.
matter lopsided. The long synopsis, in lower-case italic, with its clauses separated by semicolons, is sometimes put on a separate leaf with blank verso before the chapter.
PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION The size of type for preface and introduction is frequently determined by the author. When the printer has the right of choice, and space will allow, the preface may be in large type, or in the
made distinctive by a change in book on a bibliographical subject preface in italic lower-case, as was
type of the text its leading.
may have
its
A
once customary.
more or
As
the preface often contains
personal explanation, it needs some distinction of type, which can be varied to suit the occasion. When these personal explanations are less of