Daily Dose of DTP: 36. Punctuate Like a Pro

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Daily Dose of DTP 36. Punctuate Like a Pro From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing There's more to punctuation than just knowing where to place commas and how to properly use exclamation points. In desktop publishing, professional punctuation is all about keeping up appearances. It involves manipulating shapes, sizes, and spaces. Today's lesson covers three areas of punctuation most often neglected by non-designers and those new to desktop publishing. Class Notes: This is not simply a word-a-day course. The lessons follow a specific order in roughly the following groupings: General concepts > Things you need > Font specifics > Image specifics > Prepress & Printing > Rules & Tutorials (bold indicates the stage in which this lesson falls) Rule #8 of Desktop Publishing Use Proper Typographical Punctuation Curl your quotes, decode your dots and dashes. Proper punctuation marks give your documents professional polish. Today's Trivia Let's not leave anything out It's not a typo when you read ellipsis and ellipses in today's lesson. Ellipses with an e is the plural of ellipsis. And while we're discussing ellipses, the term ellipsis means the omission of words which don't necessarily hinder understanding of what was said. For example, Stop doing that. vs Stop that. In quotes, an ellipsis occurs where some part of the quote was left out. The term ellipsis also came to refer to the mark used to indicate the omission of words. Eclipsis is another (less common) name for that mark. Periods, or elliptical periods, are the usual form these days, but once it was common to use elliptical asterisks (***) and sometimes a 2-em or 3-em dash stands in for missing words. This email is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Daily Dose of DTP' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement