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Details steps involved in publishing a book and provides a guide to usage.

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• Preface(p. xix)
• Part I Manuscript(p. 1)
• Technicalities of Form(p. 3)
• Physical Form(p. 3)
• Final Reading of the Manuscript(p. 8)
• Author's Alterations(p. 9)
• Editorial Marks(p. 10)
• Style(p. 12)
• Topical Heads(p. 14)
• Excerpts(p. 17)
• Footnotes(p. 22)
• Tables(p. 32)
• Bibliographies(p. 37)
• Illustrations(p. 43)
• Special Responsibilities of the Book Writer(p. 45)
• Front Matter(p. 46)
• Back Matter(p. 48)
• Legal Areas of Particular Concern to the Author(p. 48)
• The Copyright Law(p. 48)
• Libel(p. 52)
• The Right of Privacy(p. 54)
• Part II Copy and Proof(p. 55)
• Workers on Copy and Proof(p. 57)
• The Editor(p. 57)
• Editor or Copy Editor(p. 57)
• The Production Department(p. 61)
• Layout(p. 61)
• Front Matter(p. 62)
• Back Matter(p. 68)
• Work on Proof(p. 69)
• Galley Proofs(p. 70)
• Page Proofs(p. 74)
• Indexes(p. 76)
• Indexes by Names(p. 77)
• Compiling a Dictionary-Style Index(p. 79)
• Alphabetical Order(p. 90)
• Typography of Indexes(p. 93)
• Part III Copy-Editing Style(p. 97)
• Style(p. 99)
• Abbreviations(p. 100)
• Symbols and Signs(p. 120)
• Numbers(p. 125)
• Italics(p. 136)
• Capitalization(p. 142)
• Capitals to Mark Beginnings(p. 142)
• Titles, Headings, Legends(p. 146)
• Proper Nouns and Adjectives(p. 148)
• Punctuation(p. 172)
• Semicolon(p. 182)
• Comma(p. 184)
• Em Dash(p. 206)
• En Dash(p. 210)
• Two-Em Dash(p. 211)
• Parentheses(p. 211)
• Brackets(p. 212)
• Quotation Marks(p. 213)
• Apostrophe(p. 222)
• Hyphen(p. 223)
• Points of Ellipsis(p. 225)
• Compound Words(p. 226)
• Division of Words(p. 237)
• Part IV Typographical Style(p. 241)
• Elements of Typographical Style(p. 243)
• Leading(p. 243)
• Spacing(p. 244)
• Indention(p. 246)
• Problems of Typographical Style(p. 247)
• Headings(p. 247)
• Initials(p. 250)
• Synopses(p. 252)
• Epigraphical Quotations(p. 253)
• Excerpts(p. 253)
• Footnotes(p. 254)
• Tables(p. 255)
• Number columns(p. 257)
• Tables without figures(p. 258)
• Ditto marks(p. 258)
• Captions(p. 258)
• Column heads or boxheads(p. 259)
• Captions and Legends(p. 263)
• Bibliographies(p. 266)
• Details of Page Makeup(p. 269)
• Typography of Various Forms(p. 274)
• Fiction(p. 274)
• Poetry(p. 275)
• Plays(p. 276)
• Writings on Religion(p. 279)
• Letters(p. 280)
• Legal Writing(p. 281)
• Mathematical and Scientific Writing(p. 283)
• Composition of Foreign Languages(p. 288)
• Danish(p. 288)
• Dutch(p. 289)
• French(p. 289)
• German(p. 299)
• Classic Greek(p. 307)
• Hebrew(p. 310)
• Italian(p. 316)
• Latin(p. 318)
• Norwegian(p. 320)
• Polish(p. 320)
• Portuguese(p. 321)
• Russian(p. 321)
• Spanish(p. 327)
• Swedish(p. 334)
• Phonetics(p. 334)
• Part V Grammar(p. 339)
• Verbs(p. 341)
• Voice(p. 341)
• Mood(p. 342)
• Tense(p. 344)
• Auxiliaries(p. 347)
• Agreement(p. 349)
• Nouns(p. 357)
• Number(p. 357)
• Possessive Case(p. 358)
• Pronouns(p. 361)
• Case(p. 361)
• Antecedents(p. 362)
• Adjectives and Adverbs(p. 368)
• Articles(p. 372)
• Indefinite Articles(p. 372)
• Definite Article(p. 373)
• Conjunctions(p. 374)
• Coordinating Conjunctions(p. 374)
• Subordinating Conjunctions(p. 376)
• Correlative Conjunctions(p. 380)
• Prepositions(p. 381)
• Sentence Structure(p. 384)
• Position of Modifiers(p. 385)
• Omissions(p. 389)
• Glossary of Grammatical Terms(p. 391)
• Part VI Use of Words(p. 405)
• Wordiness(p. 407)
• Trite Expressions(p. 411)
• Appropriateness(p. 415)
• The Right Preposition(p. 432)
• Words Likely to be Misused or Confused(p. 446)
• Spelling(p. 469)
• The "EI" or "IE" Difficulty(p. 469)
• Forming Derivatives by Adding Suffixes(p. 470)
• Troublesome Suffixes(p. 472)
• Formation of Plurals(p. 473)
• Formation of the Possessive Case(p. 478)
• Ordinary Words that Cause Troble(p. 481)
• Foreign Words and Phrases(p. 481)
• Bibliography for Parts V and VI(p. 487)
• Book Publishers(p. 488)
• Part VII Typography and Illustration(p. 489)
• The Size of the Book(p. 491)
• Casting Off(p. 491)
• Trim Size(p. 493)
• Type Page(p. 494)
• The Mechanics of Composition(p. 496)
• Hot Metal Composition(p. 496)
• Type(p. 497)
• Type Measurement(p. 501)
• Classification of Typefaces(p. 504)
• Choice of Size and Face(p. 506)
• Computing the Length in Type(p. 509)
• Typesetting(p. 511)
• Cold Type Composition(p. 511)
• Photocomposition or Phototypesetting(p. 514)
• Sample Pages(p. 516)
• Proofs(p. 517)
• The Mechanics of Printing(p. 518)
• Letterpress(p. 518)
• Offset Lithography or Photo-Offset(p. 519)
• Illustrations(p. 520)
• Paper(p. 524)
• Book Sizes(p. 530)
• Binding(p. 530)
• Bibliography(p. 532)
• Glossary of Printing and Allied Terms(p. 535)
• Index(p. 549)