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The editors's assumed readership is authors preparing for reproduction with full access to capabilities of a printing press: > 75. SET IN SMALLER TYPE. Ordinar
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The editors's assumed readership is authors preparing for reproduction with full access to capabilities of a printing press:
> 75. SET IN SMALLER TYPE. Ordinarily, all prose extracts which will make three or more lines in the smaller type, and all poetry citations of two lines or more. An isolated prose quotation, even though its length would bring it under this rule, may properly be run into the text, if it bears an organic relation to the argument pre- sented. On the other hand, a quotation of one or two lines which is closely preceded or followed by longer extracts, set in smaller type, may likewise be reduced, as a matter of uniform appearance
This although the mimeograph (for copying pages from a typewriter) was already in use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph