INDENTION AND PARAGRAPHING

IN prose manuscript, each paragraph should be written with regular indention.

2. When paragraphs are numbered, the figure should be written where the capital letter of the first word would otherwise be placed.

3. In poetry, lines which overrun should be written with reverse indention.

4. When poetry is quoted in a prose composition, it should begin on a new line. If the continuation of the prose writing does not call for a new paragraph, the next line of prose text begins without indention.

5. When a prose quotation is introduced, it should be treated as in Rule 4 if it contains more than a single sentence; otherwise it is “run in,” with the proper quotation-marks and punctuation.

6. There are different forms of indention in typography which are used for different purposes, viz.:

Irregular indention.— For this form of in­den­tion there are no spec­i­fied rules, and it is used prin­ci­pal­ly in cer­tain styles of po­et­ry and in dis­play work. {56}

En échelon indention is largely used for dis­play in post­ers and ad­ver­tise­ments. It con­sists in the di­ag­o­nal ar­range­ment of words, thus:

CARPETS

CHAIRS

TABLES

STOVES

Hanging indention, which makes the first line of full width and in­dents all the fol­low­ing lines one or more ems on the left, as shown in these four lines.

Lozenge in­den­tion re­quires an ar­range­ment of the lines in this manner:

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