HART’s Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford

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RULES FOR SETTING ENGLISH. A or An. Abbreviations and Contractions. Abbreviations used in the metric system of weights and measures. Books of the Bible. Capitals, Small Capitals, and Lower-Case Initials. Capital and lower case. Adjectives derived from proper names. Verbs and other words derived from proper names. Names of genus and species. Small capitals. Division of Words. Errata, Erratum. Figures and Numerals. Words or figures. Numerals generally. Indexes. Italic and Roman Type. Foreign words and phrases. Musical Works. Nor and Or. O and Oh. Poetry. Possessive Case. Proof Correction. Proof-correction marks. Punctuation. Comma. Semicolon. Colon. Full point. Question mark. Exclamation mark. Apostrophe. Parentheses. Square brackets. Dash. Marks of omission. Quotation marks. Relative placing of quotation marks and punctuation. Punctuation in classical and philological notes. Punctuation marks and references to footnotes. Points in title-pages, headlines, etc. Quotations. References to Printed and Manuscript Sources. Printed works. MS. and unpublished sources. Government and official papers. Scientific Work. Spacing. Special Signs and Symbols. Thorn, Eth, Wyn, Yogh. Vowel-Ligatures (AE and OE). SPELLINGS. Alternative and Difficult Spellings. Doubling Consonants with Suffixes. Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Works. Formation of Plurals in English. Words ending in -e and -y. Words ending in -o. Compounds. Formation of Plurals in Words of Foreign Origin. Hyphened and Non-Hyphened Words. Words ending in -able. Words ending in -ible. Words ending in -ize, -ise, and -yse. Words ending in -ment. DECIMAL CURRENCY. RULES FOR SETTING FOREIGN LANGUAGES. French. Abbreviations. Accented capitals. Awkward divisions: abbreviated words and large numbers expressed in figures. Capital and lower case. Division of words. Grave and acute accents. Hyphens. Italic and roman type. Metal-rules. Numerals. Punctuation. Quotation marks. Reference figures. Spacing. German. Abbreviations. Accented letters. Apostrophe. Division of words. Double letters. Hyphens. Initial capitals. Letter-spacing for emphasis. Numerals. Punctuation. Quotation marks. Use of I[umlaut] and B[ss]. Greek. Aspirates and accents. Cardinal numbers. Division of Greek and Latin words. Punctuation. Spacing. Italian. Division of words. Spacing. Oriental Languages in Roman Type. Russian. Abbreviations. Bibliographical lists. Capital and lower case. Dash. Division of words. Hyphens. Italic and letter-spacing. Numerals, dates, reference figures, fractions. Plays. Punctuation. Quotation marks. Spacing. Transliteration. Spanish. Accent. Division of words. Orthography. Punctuation. Quotation marks. BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDEX.