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THE want of uniformity of spelling, capitalisation, punctuation, and use of italic type causes continual trouble to all who are responsible for the editorial supervision of scientific literature in any form. Some authors are more German than the Germans in their use of capitals, while others underline their manuscripts as freely as ladies do their correspondence. It is frequently difficult to decide questions of orthography, and to reduce individual practice to the consistent style, which is desirable in the columns of a periodical, but is not always maintained. Mr. Collins has prepared his book to help in this end, as a standard guide for “Authors, Editors, Printers, Correctors of the Press, Compositors, and Typists.”
Author and Printer. An Attempt to Codify the best Typographical Practices of the Present Day.
By F. Howard Collins. Pp. xv + 408. (London: Henry Frowde, 1905.) Price 5s. net.
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Author and Printer An Attempt to Codify the best Typographical Practices of the Present Day . Nature 72, 100 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072100b0
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