Alasdair Gray source 5
The book contains many long quotations from manuscript and
[other] books. These are conventionally presented within
broader margins than the rest of the text. The
quotations from the letters are in italic (indicated by
underlining) but I would like the book quotations set
in a different and denser type. If this is too expensive o
difficult to do, could the book quotations be printe
more densely by reducing the space between the lines
manuscript quotations, in italic: pages 193, […], 207, 237, 456
Book quotations: pages 85, 86, 156, 164, 279
There are also quotations from newspapers. I would like
these to be printed the exact width of a newspaper-column
with the same sort of density.
Newspaper quotations: pages 326, 327, 368, 369, 414, 415
On page 475 there is a conference programme. I would
be gratefull (sic) if the compositor would print it with the
style and spacing of an [really] expensive conference
programme.
On pages 382 and 389 a motorway roadsign is
put within the body of the text. In the typescript there are
small, shoddy indications of the fine clear sans-serif thing
I would like to see.
Chapters 38 and 43 contain long speeches (pages 449 to
452 and 541 to 549) which are set in an unusual way.
Like the quotations they should either be set in a different type or
in the same type
more densely
set: but they are
not centred on the
page. They are
justified to the
right-hand
margin.
The typescript
indicates how
this should be
done.
[the above text is set out around a rough sketch of a double-page spread from
chapter thirty-eight showing blocks of text]