Also for the more common words derived from proper names, as—boycott, doily, guernsey, hackney, hansom-cab, holland, inverness, japanning, latinity, may (blossom), morocco, russia, stepney-wheel.
When ‘In the press’ occurs in publishers’ announcements, print ‘press’ with a lower-case initial.
SMALL CAPITALS
Put a hair space between the letters of contractions in small capitals:
| A.U.C. Anno urbis conditae | |
| A.D. Anno Domini | A.H. Anno Hegirae |
| A.M. Anno mundi | B.C. Before Christ. |
a.m.[42] (ante meridiem), p.m.[{42}] (post meridiem), should be lower-case, except in lines of caps. or small caps.
When small caps, are used at foot of title-page, print thus: M DCCCC IV[43]
Text references to caps. in plates and woodcuts to be in small caps.
The first word in each chapter of a book is to be in small caps. and the first line usually indented one em; but this does not apply to works in which the matter is broken up into many sections, nor to cases where large initials are used. (See [p. 50] as to indentation.)