Words into Type (3rd Edition)
by Marjorie E. Skillin, Robert Malcolm Gay
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Author: Marjorie E. Skillin, Robert Malcolm GayEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1974-06
ISBN: 0139642625
Number of pages: 585
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Book Review: The content is probably great, the layout definitely poor.
Summary: 2 Stars
The content of this book is probably great. The earlier edition was. I first came across the second edition of "Words Into Type" when I was in the final stages of editing my first book. What a relief! It answered questions I didn't even know I had. So I bought the new, revised, third edition, sight unseen. It would be at least as good as the old one, right? Wrong. It was an expensive mistake. Prentice-Hall managed to take a great book and make it poor. The print is too small, they put an extra wide margin on the outside with too little margin on the inside, jamming the words into the middle of the book. A poor excuse for a serious reference work. The content of this book deserves better.
Sue Robishaw, ManyTracks
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