The Mac is not a typewriter

This bestselling typography primer explains the top twenty type secrets—from em dashes to curly quotes—and provides a simple set of rules that novice desktop publishers can learn quickly and pros can refer back to easily.

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One of the most popular Macintosh books ever published (over 300,000 now in print), The Mac is not a typewritercovers the top twenty things you need to know to make your documents look clean and professional: em dashes, curly quotes, spaces and indents, white space, etc. It's a primer that novices can pick up quickly, and that pros can keep going back to. Winner of the 1991 Benjamin Franklin Award, Computer Book Category.