Rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford - Oxford University Press

Antique, old face:

The Clarendon Press, Oxford,

Grotesque:

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The following is a list of type-bodies in more common use, the first column giving the name of the English type-body, and the second its designation under the American point-system.

English	American
Pearl	5	point
Ruby	5½	”
Nonpareil	6	”
Minion	7	”
Brevier	8	”
Bourgeois	9	”
Long Primer	10	”
Small Pica	11	”
Pica	12	”

GENERAL INDEX

NOTE.—The words ending in -able, -ible, -ise, -ize, and -ment, and also others, given in alphabetical order on [pp. 9-37] (q.v.), are not repeated here.

A or an, use of, [39].
before contractions, [39].
Abbreviations, see Contractions.
in French, [82-4].
in German, [93-4].
-able, words ending in, [9].
Accented -èd in poetry, [45].
Accents in French, [78-9].
A.D., [47], [69].
Allardyce on Stops, &c., examples from, [64].
Alternative or difficult spellings, some, [15-24].
Ampersand (&), [43].
And (with and without comma), [57].
Anglicized words, set in roman, [35-6].
Apocrypha, contractions for books of, [42].
Aposiopesis, mark of, [62].
Apostrophe, in French names ending in -s or -x, [72].
in German, [94].
in place-names, [44].
in poetry, [45].
in possessive case of proper names, [71].
omitted in hers, ours, theirs, yours, [44].
thin space before, when to use, [49].
when to join close up, [44].
Asterisks, as reference signs, [70].
in philology, [48].
not to be used for marks of hiatus, [62].
Authors and their works, references to, [52].
Awkward divisions, &c., [53-4], [80-1].
B.C., [47], [69].
Beadnell on Spelling, &c., [55-61].
Bible and Prayer Book spellings, [9] (note).
Bible, contractions for books of, [41-2].
references to chapters and verses in, [52].
Book sizes—
4to, 8vo, 12mo, &c., need no full points, [42].
Book titles, italic or roman, [50], [52].
Brackets, [61].
Breaklines, length of, [49].
Capital letters, when to use in English, [46].
in French, [73-7].
in German, [88].
in lemmas, [67].
when accented in French, [78].
Chapter, first word in small caps., [48].
first line to be indented, [48], [50].
-ck preceding a suffix, [15].
Colon, the, [59].
Commas—
‘inverted’, [63].
use of, with adjectives and adverbs, [57].
with ‘and’, [57].
with more than three figures, [68], [84-5].
Compass, points of the, [43].
Compound words, [25-8].
plurals of, [15], [21].
Consonants, double or single with a suffix, [29].
Contractions generally, [41-5].
of colloquial expressions, [44].
of Latin words not in italic, [51].
of names of counties, [42].
of personal titles, [44].
of philological terms, [43].
of points of the compass, [43].
of references in footnotes, [43].
of references to manuscripts, [43].
of Scripture references, [41-2].
of sums of money, [51].
of titles of books, [44].
of weights and measures, [43].
Correction of proofs, marks used in, [98].
Counties, names of, abbreviated, [42].
Dagger † (= obsolete or deceased), [48].
Dash, the, [61].
Date at foot of title-page, [47].
Dates, how to print, [69], [84].
Decimal points, [69].
Deity, pronouns referring to the, [46].
De Vinne on Correct Composition, [55-6], [63].
Diaeresis signs, when to use, [17].
Difficult or alternative spellings, [15-24].
Digraphs and diphthongs, [41].
Division of words, English, [53-4].
French, [80-1].
German, [90].
Greek, [97].
Italian, [54].
Latin, [95-6].
Portuguese, [54].
Spanish, [54].
Double letters, in German, [93].
e before -able and -ment, [9], [24].
-ed, -èd, in poetry, [45].
Ellipsis, [49], [62].
Em rules, various uses of, [61-2], [70].
English words, how to divide, [53-4].
En rules, when to use, [69-70].
Erratum and Errata, when to print, [33].
ETC., ETC., &c., when to use, [43].
Exclamation, the note of, [60].
Extracts, how to print, [50].
Figures, commas with, [68-9].
First line of chapter, [48].
Footnotes, abbreviations in, [43], [51].
superior figures to refer to, [67], [70].
Foreign words and phrases, [35-7].
in roman, [35-6].
in italic, [36-7].
Foreign words, formation of plurals of, [31-3].
French language, works in the, [73-87].
abbreviations, [80-1], [82-4].
accented capital letters in, [78].
accented small capitals, [78].
accents, [78-9].
capital and lower-case letters, [73-8].
division of words, [81-2].
hyphens, [79-80].
metal-rules, [80].
metric signs, [83].
names ending in -s or -x, [72].
numerals, [84-5].
quotation marks, [86-7].
reference figures, [85].
roman and italic, [85].
space before comma, [80].
spacing generally, [80].
Full points, examples of use, [60].
for contractions, [43-4].
to denote omissions, [62].
when not to use, [42], [43], [68], [69].
German language, works in the, [88-94].
abbreviations, [93].
apostrophes, [94].
capital and lower-case letters, [88-9].
commas, [94].
division of words, [90].
double letters, [93].
full points, [94].
hyphens, [90].
in roman type, [91].
[𝔩𝔩], [92].
metal-rules, [91].
paragraph mark (§), [94].
prepositional and other prefixes, [90-1].
quotation marks, [92].
reformed spelling, [89-90].
ſ, 𝔰, [93].
spaced words, [90].
ſſ, 𝔰ſ, [92].
[ſ𝔷], [92-3].
suffixes 𝔩𝔦[𝔠𝔥], 𝔷𝔦𝔤, [91].
Greek words, how to divide, [97].
Guillemets in French, [86], [87].
Headlines, omission of points at end of, [67].
Head Master, note on, [25].
Hers, no apostrophe, [44].
Hyphens, use of, in English, [25-8].
in French, [79-80].
in German, [90].
-ible, words ending in, [11].
I’d, I’ll, &c. (no space), [44].
Indentation of first lines, [48], [50].
Initials with dates, [47].
Interrogation, the note of, [60].
‘Inverted commas’, [63].
-ise or -ize, words ending in, [12-14].
Italian words (some), how to divide, [54].
Italic type—
for mathematical theorems, [51].
names of books and periodicals in, [50].
names of ships in, [51].
words and phrases in, [36-7], [50-1].
Latin words, how to divide, [95-6].
lb., singular and plural form, [43].
Lefevre, T., Guide pratique du compositeur, referred to, [55].
Lower-case letters, for anglicized words, [47].
for contractions, [43], [47].
in French, [73-8].
in German, [88-9].
MS. = manuscript, contraction of, [43].
Marks used in the correction of proofs, [98].
Marks of omission, [62].
Marks of parenthesis, [61].
Mathematics, inferior in, [70].
theorems, in italics, [51].
Measures, contractions of, [43].
Medical signs, [48].
-ment, words ending in, [24].
Metal-rules in English, [61-2], [70].
in French, [86].
in German, [91].
Metric signs in French, abbreviations of, [83].
Money, contractions in sums of, [51].
Months, names of, contracted, [42].
New Testament, contractions for names of books of, [42].
Newspapers, in italic, [51].
Non-hyphened words, [25-8].
Nor and or, [40].
Note of exclamation, [60-1].
interrogation, [60].
Numbering of paragraphs, [70].
Numerals, arabic, [68-70].
in French, [84-5].
in German, [94].
roman, use of, [68-70].
O and Oh, [39].
-o, plurals of nouns ending in, [34].
Old Testament, contractions for names of books of, [41].
Omission marks, use full points for, [62].
Ours, no apostrophe, [44].
Page references, citation of, [69], [70].
Paragraphs, indentation of, [48], [50].
numbering of, [70].
spacing of last line, [49].
Parenthesis, marks of, [60-1].
Period or full stop, the, [60-1].
Periodicals, names of, italic, [50].
Philological works, contractions in, [43].
punctuation in, [67].
use of symbols in, [48].
Phonetic spellings, [38].
Place-names, use of apostrophes in, [44-5].
Plates, &c., references to, [47].
Plurals, formation of, in words of foreign origin, [31-2].
of nouns ending in -o, [34].
Poetry, ’d, -ed, and -èd in, [45].
quotations from, [45].
spacing of, [49].
Points (punctuation marks), [62].
decimal, [69].
full, when to omit, [42], [43], [68], [69].
in title-pages, &c., [67].
Points of the compass, [43].
Portuguese words (some), how to divide, [54].
Possessive case of proper names, [71-2].
Prefixes in German, prepositional and other, [90-1].
Pronouns, Deistic, capitalization of, [46].
omission of apostrophe in, [54].
Proofs, marks used in correcting, [98].
Proper names, adjectives derived from, [46].
common words derived from, [47].
possessive case of, [71-2].
PS. = postscript (one full point), [43].
Punctuation generally, [55-67].
colon, [59-60].
comma, [57-8].
dash, [61-2].
note of exclamation, [60-1].
note of interrogation, [60].
parenthesis, [61].
period or full stop, [60-1].
semicolon, [58-9].
Punctuation marks generally, [62-3].
in classical and philological notes, [67].
in relation to footnotes, [67].
quotation marks, [63].
when to precede, and when to follow, the closing quotation mark, [63-7].
Quotation marks, [63-7].
in essays, [63].
in French, [86-7].
in German, [92].
‘inverted commas’ (so-called), [63].
Quotations from foreign books, &c., [50].
poetical, [45], [63].
prose, [63].
when to break off, [50].
Reference figures in French, [84-5].
References generally, [52].
to authors and their works, [52].
to the Bible, [41-2], [52].
to footnotes, [70].
to manuscripts, [43], [52].
to periodicals, [50].
to plates, woodcuts, &c., [47].
in relation to punctuation marks, [67].
to Shakespeare’s plays, &c., [52].
to ships, [51].
Roman and italics in French, [85].
Roman numerals, use of, [68-70].
Roman type, German works in, [91].
anglicized words in, [35-6].
ſ, 𝔰, [93].
’s, thin space before apostrophe, when to use, [49].
Scripture references, [41-2], [52].
Semicolon, the, [58-9].
Shakespeare, spelling of the name, [23].
Shakespeare’s plays, references to, [52].
‘Shilling-mark’, [51].
Ships, names of, italic, [51].
Signs for reference marks, use of, [70].
special, [48].
Small capitals, when to use, [47].
Southward’s Practical Printing, quoted, [55].
Space before comma allowed, in printing French, [80].
Spaced words in German, [90].
Spacing generally, [49-50].
in French, [80].
in Greek, Latin, and Italian, [49].
of last line in paragraph, [49].
of poetry, [49].
Spanish words (some), how to divide, [54].
Special signs or symbols, [48].
Spellings, alternative or difficult, [15-24].
Bible and Prayer Book, [9] (note).
of old writers, [38].
phonetic, [38].
reformed German, [89-90].
sq., sqq., [70].
ſſ, 𝔰ſ, [92].
Streets, how to print names of, [46].
Suffixes, [29-30].
𝔩𝔦[𝔠𝔥], 𝔷𝔦𝔤, [91].
Superior figures and letters, [70].
[ſ𝔷], [92-3].
Theirs, no apostrophe, [44].
Title-pages, date at foot of, [47].
points in, [67].
Titles, personal, contraction of, [44].
Types, English names of, [100-2].
American point-system, [102].
Underlines, [50].
Vowel-ligatures, [41].
Weights and measures, contractions of, [43].
Woodcuts, plates, &c., references to, [47].
Words—
common, derived from proper names, [46].
ending in -able, [9].
ending in -ible, [11].
ending in -ise or -ize, [12-14].
ending in -ment, [24].
ending in -o, plurals of, [34].
ending with -ed or -èd in poetry, [45].
foreign, in italic, [35-6].
foreign, in roman, [36-7].
Yours, no apostrophe, [44].