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by card_zero 11 hours ago
It's like saying I am intimately involved in the printer's art. This is usually not true, unless you're involved with a very niche publisher who still has a box of sorts and inky fingers. Hyphen-minus all the way.
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No it doesn't. I happened to have read "design and typography in easy steps" as a (bored) child of the 90s, but that's the extent of my "printer's art" knowledge.

I don't understand the celebration of ignorance myself. There are lots of things I don't know how to do or how to use, but I'd never dream of complaining because somebody else does.

Read their original message again--you are debating with a self-proclaimed "fucker." ;)
I wasn't sure what his sex life had to do with typography.
How do you feel about a fleuron dinkus?
It's probably in the book, but I don't remember. This might well be my cue to read it a third time.