338 INDEX

sarcasm mark, xi, 231-33,236-37,244
inverted exclamation point CO as,
238-39,243,244
SarkMark as, 240-44
snark (.") as, 239-40
see also irony mark
“Sarcasm Mark, The” (Liloia), 232-33
SarcMark, 240-44
Sartalics.com, 229-31,231
scaling, letter, 141-42
scare quotes, 187,208
Schaak, John C., 54«

Scheves, William, archbishop of St.

Andrews, 178,178
Schilling, 43
scholia, 168

scriptio continua (unspaced writing), 4,
7,12-13, H> iq8, 123-24,191-92
scriptoria, 13,14,170
Secretary’s Manual, The, 161
Secret Intelligence Service, Brit¬
ish, 22 6n
section sign (§), 3,35
Self, Will, 132П

self-censorship, dash in, 153-54,
255-58,159,160
semi-colash (;—), 152,153,160
sententiae, 200-201
Septuagint (LXX), 101-3
Shakespeare, William, 6$n-66n,
151-52,201
Share (typeface), 222
sharp symbol (tt), 47
shebang (#!), 50»

Sherman, William H., xi, 167-68,

176,179
shilling, 45

Sholes, Christopher Latham, 90-91,
160-61,162,164
shorthand, Tironian, 62-64,63,72-74
Sicyonians (Menander), 8
situational irony, 211
Six Lives (Plutarch), 775
Skia (typeface), 21,106
slash, tee virgule
Slate, 238

slug (line of type), 134
smileys, 233-34,244

Smith-Corona,33
Smollett, Tobias, 157
snark (•" orv), 239-40
snigger point, 236
Socratic irony, 211
sol, 45

solidus (coin), 45,46
solidus (fraction mark, /), 46»
Sorrows of the Heart, The, 204
sou, 45

Soulé, Samuel W., 90
spaces, 3,93
see also word spacing
Speckter, Martin K., xi, 25-28,29-30,
32,33-34- 37.39.208,229,230,238
Speckter, Penny, x, xi, 39
speech:
direct, tee direct speech
reported, 203,204
spelling, phonetic, 220
Spender, Stephen, 22 6n
spoken language:
paganism and, 10
see also reading aloud
sports records, asterisks in, 115-16,
116, и8и
Stabile, Giorgio, 87-90
Standard, Paul, 67-68
star (*), see asterisk
star (*), 202

State Library of New South Wales,
Australia, 38-39,39
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 157
sublinear hyphen!—), 122-23,I23>

124,125

subordinate dot (underdot), 5-6
Sumerians, 98
Supreme Court, U.S., 117
suspensivas, 147

Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Lord
Ronald Charles, 158
Swift, Jonathan, 158

Tabulating Machine Company, 93
Tabulator, 91-93,93
Taylor, Robert, 81

Tékhnë Grammatiké (The Art of Gram¬
mar) (Dionysius Thrax), 5,122

INDEX 339

Telecoms Heritage, 49
Telephone Heritage Group, 55
telephone keypads, xi, 51-56,52, 57
teletype, teleprinters, 80,83,83,84, 94
Teletype ASR-33 teleprinter, 83,83,

84, 85—86
temherte slaq (i), 232,238,240,243
Tempest (Shakespeare), 65n-66n
TENEX operating system, 83-84
terminology, unfamiliar, set in quota¬
tion marks, 187
Tetzel, Johann, 104-5
Teutsche Algebra (Rahn), іо8и
TgX, 139-40,141,142,228
textual criticism, 99
textura blackletter, 72,130
TheSnark.org, 239-40
Thorpe, Jim, 55
Thrax, Dionysius, 5,122,147
tilde (-), 42,43,46
as sarcasm mark, 233
Time, 29,35

Times (London), 226,228
Tiro, Marcus Tullius, 62
Latin shorthand devised by, 62-64,
63,72-74

Tironian et, 63-64,67,71,71,72,73, 74,
74.13,7$, Г28,129, i)i, 174
title pages, 181
tittle (-), 42,43,46
Tomlinson, Ray, 79,82-86,94
Toronto Star, 242
Tory, Geoffroy, 199-200
Touch-Tone dialing, 51-53,52,56
Tour de France, 118«

“Towards a History of the Manicule”
(Sherman), 167-68,179
Trajan’s Column, 245
Treasure Island (Stevenson), 157
Trollope, Anthony, 157
Troyes, France, 46,205
troy weight, 46-47
Trudeau, Garry, 117,118
Truss, Lynne, 187-88
Tschicholdjan, 65, 67-68,72,73
Tsigie, Asteraye, 231-32
Twain, Mark, 133-34,161
Twitter, 56,57,79

typesetting machines:

Linotype, 34,134-35, ¡3$, U8
Monotype, 34,134,135-36,737, H8
optical, 138

replaced by computer typography,
138-43

Type Talks, 25-26,27,28,33
typewriters:

@ symbol on, 91,92
hyphen-minus on, 146,161-62,162,
163-64,245
interrobang on, 28-29,30-32,3/, 33
invention of, 90-91,160-61
limited character sets of, 161
typographers, typography:
in advertising, 114,183-84
computers and, 138-43
Gill as, ix, x, 17-19
Internet and, 22-23
Typographia (Johnson), 172
typographical ornaments (dingbats),
182-83,182
Typographic Desk Reference, ix, x

Ullman, Berthold L., 86
ancia, unciae, 42n
uncial scripts, 12,86,192, /93
understatement, 212
Underware, xi, 222-23,24°> 242> 244
Unicode:
dagger and cross in, 107
dashes in, 164
interrobang in, 37
smile character in, 236«

“two asterisks aligned vertically”
in, 118

United States Postal Service (USPS),
185,183

UNIX operating system, 50,84«
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 6m
Updike, John, 153
Urban Dictionary, 76,233
Urquhart, Thomas, 214
Usenet, 195

Uthlaut, Herbert T., 54»

Vecsey, George, и8я
verbal irony, 211-12