ospalh reviewed Butterick’s Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick
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3 stars
Some nice tips for beginners, i ges.
I would call it “How to make yur Word documents look not ugly”.
Sure, absolutely do not use straight quotation marks, &c. &c.
Very prescriptive. Some bits ar questionable at best. For a horizontal line, it says to tipe a string of underscores. No. Go hunt for the horizontal line or rule option in the menus. Insisting on unspaced em-dashes – no. Use spaced en-dashes. Using italicized straight quotes for prime and double prime (0.9144 m, 25.4 mm) is creative, but why not use the proper characters »′« and »″«? The book tells yu to tipe the codepoint number (alt-numpad on Windows) for lots of other characters. Why not for these?