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Re:Five minute guide to better typography by Someone on Saturday October 07, 2017 @02:30PM (#15424977)
The book “the Mac is not a typewriter” (https://www.amazon.com/Mac-Not-Typewriter-2nd/dp/0201782634) may help get them some idea about style. It is 15 years old, targets print, and is aimed at Mac users, but that doesn’t matter that much.

(For PC users, there is “the PC is not a typewriter” (https://www.amazon.com/Pc-not-typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/0...), but that is even older, so I’m not sure it will be more useful than the original, unless your users are using WordPerfect or Ventura Publisher)

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Re:Five minute guide to better typography by brians on Sunday October 08, 2017 @03:32AM (#15427334)
Fifteen? I read that by 1991, latest. It’s nearly thirty. And it’s just what I thought of here: this article has the same simple clarity.
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Re:Five minute guide to better typography by Someone on Sunday October 08, 2017 @10:16AM (#15428283)
The second printing I referenced is from 2003. The (presumably) first printing on my bookshelf is from 1990.
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