What is Small Type
From “Preliminary Copy-Editing, Design and Specimen Pages¨ in Butcher’s Copy-Editing
We use ‘small type’ to mean a size between text type and footnote type: […]
There are then type sizes, with “small type¨ among them:
- Text type (largest)
- Small type (medium)
- Footnote type (smallest)
Things that tend to be set in “small type¨ are: “long quotations […], exercises, etc.¨, as well as the following:
From From “Preliminary Copy-Editing, Design and Specimen Pages¨ in Butcher’s Copy-Editing
Appendixes are usually set in small type, but may be in text type if, for example, they contain mathematics or long quotations that are to be displayed in smaller type.
It is also true that “tables may be set in small type or in footnote type¨ (Butcher, et al 2006, 25).
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- “Preliminary Copy-Editing, Design and Specimen Pages.” In Butcher’s Copy-Editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-Editors and Proofreaders, 4th ed., 17–27. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006.