TYPOGRAPHICAL STYLE. Every newspaper and magazine has its own distinct
typographical style in capitalization, abbreviation, punctuation,
hyphenation, and the use of numerical figures. Some newspapers and
periodicals have a style book giving rules for the preparation and
editing of copy. A careful reading of several issues of a publication
will show a writer the salient features of its typographical style. It
is less important, however, to conform to the typographical
peculiarities of any one publication than it is to follow consistently
the commonly accepted rules of capitalization, punctuation,
abbreviation, and "unreformed" spelling. Printers prefer to have each
page end with a complete sentence. At the close of the article it is
well to put the end mark (#).

When a special feature story for newspaper publication must be prepared
so hastily that there is no time to copy the first draft, it may be
desirable to revise the manuscript by using the marks commonly employed
in editing copy. These are as follows:

american Three short lines under a letter or a
= word indicate that it is to be set in
- capital letters; thus, American.

New York Times Two short lines under a letter or a
= = = word indicate that it is to be set in
- - - small capital letters; thus, NEW
YORK TIMES.

sine qua non One line under a word or words indicates
---- --- --- that it is to be set in italics;
thus, _sine qua non_.

He is a /Sophomore An oblique line drawn from right to
left through a capital letter indicates
that it is to be set in lower
case; thus, He is a sophomore.
____ _____
There are |10| in a |bu.| A circle around numerical figures or
---- ----- abbreviations indicates that they
are to be spelled out; thus, There
are ten in a bushel.
___________ _______
|Professor| A.B.Smith is |sixty|. A circle around words or figures
----------- ------- spelled out indicates that the