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Excerpt from Printing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as Applied More Particularly to the Printing of Books
For increasing For decreasing Thin and middling, Middling Space, En quadrat, Thin space, Thick space and middling, Hair space Two thick spaces. (as a last resource).
Justifying a line should be performed by spacing each line out with equal tightness, but not to such a degree as to pre vent the stick being emptied easily. Good justification, so as to allow a handful or page of type being lifted without dropping a single letter, is evidence of the careful workman.
Let the learner now place himself at the frame and take the composing stick, which has been made up to the required measure, in the left hand. It should be laid loosely in the palm of the hand, the thumb touching the brass setting rule placed against the bottom of the stick.
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