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The PC Is Not a Typewriter: A Style Manual for Creating Professional-Level Type on Your Personal Computer
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Oct 07, 2017
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Five minute guide to better typography
The book “the Mac is not a typewriter” (https://www.amazon.com/Mac-Not-Typewriter-2nd/dp/0201782634) may help get them some idea about style. It is 15 years old, targets print, and is aimed at Mac users, but that doesn’t matter that much.(For PC users, there is “the PC is not a typewriter” (https://www.amazon.com/Pc-not-typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/0...), but that is even older, so I’m not sure it will be more useful than the original, unless your users are using WordPerfect or Ventura Publisher)
⬐ briansFifteen? I read that by 1991, latest. It’s nearly thirty. And it’s just what I thought of here: this article has the same simple clarity.⬐ SomeoneThe second printing I referenced is from 2003. The (presumably) first printing on my bookshelf is from 1990.
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Jan 15, 2013
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Why you should never use two spaces after a period
Robin Williams devotes a chapter of her book, "The PC is not a Typewriter", on the subject. She concurs.http://www.amazon.com/Pc-Not-Typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/09...