Description
One of the most well liked Macintosh books ever written, The Mac is not a typewriter has been known as the “Strunk and White of typography.” Best-selling writer Robin Williams‘s simple, logical principles for the use of type to produce beautiful, professional documents are as true now as they were when the original edition was once published in 1989. This up to date edition includes new examples and expanded information dedicated to the practical advice that made the first edition an enduring bestseller. During, Robin shows you the small details that separate the pros from the amateurs: typographer versus typewriter quotation marks, en and em dashes, tabs and indents, kerning, leading, white space, widows and orphans, and hanging punctuation. If you prepare documents, you’ll be able to find The Mac is not a typewriter, Second Edition an indispensable guide. And those who read your documents will recognize the work of a pro, even supposing they do not know a curly quote from curly fries.