Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, 2nd Edition—ebook
Revised ebook: all ten stories, endnotes, corrections, and an index
If you’re interested in type, printing, and language and where they intersect, you’ll enjoy this ebook of ten researched and reported articles written in 2016 and 2017.
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Details
I look into the origin of CAPITAL LETTERS used for SHOUTING, why we type > to indicate a quoted part of a reply, the resurgence of letterpress through digital assistance, Walt Whitman’s 1888 poem “A Font of Type,” a website archiving itself for 10,000 years, and the surprising origin of “this page intentionally left blank”—and more!
This second edition updates all ten stories with notes, new information, a bibliography, and a full index. The ebook comes as DRM-free PDF and EPUB files.
The book’s chapters:
- Nothing Is Lacking: The earliest uses of marking a page as intentionally leaving something out.
- CAPITAL CRIMES: Why we SHOUT with UPPERCASE.
- The Ten-Millennium Safe: A website plans for the far future.
- The Quibble with Online Quotes: Will the Internet kill off curly quotes?
- Look Askew: Slanting type is like stealing sheep.
- Noto Bene: Google builds a massive typeface to represent all the languages of the world.
- You Can’t Quote Me on It! Email and forums ape an ancient textual device in marking quotations.
- A Font of Type: Walt Whitman was a printer, and this poem has deep roots in his background.
- What a Relief: While letterpress seemed destined for the junk heap, it’s making a surprising comeback.
- A Crank Turns a Letterpress: Your author spent hundreds of hours walking a carriage on a press back and forth and thinking about what it meant.
Specifications
- Author / Creator
- Glenn Fleishman
- Publisher
- Aperiodical Publishing Co.
- Publication Date
- November 2017
- ISBN
- 979-8-9978268-1-9
- Pages
- 128
- Format
- DRM-free PDF and EPUB formats