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    The Magazine Style-Code
    The Magazine Style-Code
    The Magazine Style-Code
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    The Magazine Style-Code

    By Leigh H. Irvine

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Magazine Style-Code - Leigh H. Irvine

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Magazine Style-Code, by Leigh H. Irvine

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Magazine Style-Code

      Author: Leigh H. Irvine

      Release Date: November 4, 2012 [EBook #41289]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAGAZINE STYLE-CODE ***

      Produced by Greg Bergquist, Jennifer Linklater, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      (This file was produced from images generously made

      available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      PUBLISHED BY

      THE MYSELL-ROLLINS BANK NOTE CO.

      THE

      MAGAZINE

      STYLE-CODE

      BY

      LEIGH H. IRVINE

      CROWN PUBLISHING CO.

      SAN FRANCISCO

      1906

      Printers Lithographers Engravers

      22 Clay Street, San Francisco, Cal.

      The Magazine

      Style-code

      A MANUAL FOR THE GUIDANCE OF AUTHORS,

      REPORTERS, TYPEWRITERS, MINISTERS,

      LAWYERS, PROOFREADERS,

      COMPOSITORS, PUBLISHERS,

      AND ALL WHO

      WRITE.

      LARGELY CODIFIED FROM THE SYSTEM OF

      THEODORE LOW DE VINNE, FROM THE

      CENTURY MAGAZINE, THE CENTURY

      COMPANY’S BOOKS,

      AND THE TREATISES

      OF F. HORACE

      TEALL.

      ABBREVIATIONS, THE USE OF CAPITAL

      LETTERS, COMPOUND WORDS,

      ETC., FULLY ILLUSTRATED

      AND EXPLAINED.

      BY

      LEIGH H. IRVINE

      Author of The New California, An Affair in the South Seas, The Writer’s Blue Book, and Other Works.

      CROWN PUBLISHING COMPANY

      SAN FRANCISCO.

      1906.

      Copyright, 1906,

      SAMUEL EPPSTEIN

      DEDICATED TO

      THEODORE LOW DE VINNE,

      WHOSE WORKS ON TYPOGRAPHY HAVE BEEN

      THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE AND INSPIRATION

      IN THE PREPARATION OF

      THIS LITTLE BOOK.

      SOURCES OF AUTHORITY.

      1. It is to be regretted that every publishing-house does not start on the principle that a thorough system of doing things right should precede the turning out of printed matter; but the press of business is so great, the demands for ‘rush work’ are so many, that system comes last, if at all. Managers are busy with the cash account and the pay-roll, for which reason a great deal is left to chance.

      Thus it falls that the negligence, incompetence, or preoccupation of printing-office managers makes good systems of typography the exception rather than the rule. It is a reflection on the art preservative that the slipshod methods and unscholarly composition of the daily newspaper type often corrupt the pages of trade-and class-publications, as well as of magazines and books. See paragraph 45 of this book for an explanation of the use of hyphens in the foregoing sentence. See paragraph 68 for the use of single quote-marks herein.

      The hurried work of newspapermen may be partly excused on the ground of haste, yet in another sense it requires no more time to do a thing the right way than to do it the wrong way.

      Printing-houses that pretend to turn out careful work, such as publishing books and periodicals, should follow some model of unquestioned authority; but as proper exemplars are not often at hand, the daily newspaper, being omnipresent, is taken for a pattern.

      The purpose of this handbook is to furnish a guide based on the scholarship and technical knowledge of some of the world’s greatest authors and printers. As blunders and inconsistencies creep into print everywhere, even when special care is taken to avoid them, the author expects this very work to be an example of the mistakes it warns others to avoid. Such shortcomings as here appear, however, should serve to emphasize the need of great pains by all who write and print.

      Some years ago it fell to the author to harmonize the style-codes of three printing-houses that were doing work for him. In seeking a model of accuracy and typographical neatness the system expounded by Theodore Low De Vinne, used by the Century Magazine and the Century Company, was chosen.

      It was discovered that there never has been any formal style-code in use by the De Vinne-Century printers. They have learned the style by studying De Vinne’s Correct Composition and like works of his on typography. Office experience teaches printers the written and unwritten laws of the De Vinne code.

      The method of the Century printers has been largely the method of the author of this manual. By correspondence with Mr. De Vinne, by studying his books, and by the practical application of his rules to the work of many offices the writer has come to know his methods, which are believed to be the simplest and most scholarly in use in the United States to-day. More than eighty per cent of the rules herein expounded are codified from the works of De Vinne, or gleaned from Teall and similar sources of indisputable authority. The work of the Chicago Proofreaders’ Association has been found helpful in the compounding of words.

      System is as necessary in a printing-house as in a bank, and classification and obedience to the law of the office are absolutely essential to the production of correct composition. Since many editors and patrons, authors and others are usually either careless or untrained in the art of preparing copy, the printer must

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