The main body of the work
In a normal book, the major part of the content is body text. The other elements are really there to guide the reader around the text in the most logical (and perhaps fashionable) manner. Some designers succeed in doing this, others fail. The style of the body text is therefore just as important as that of the other parts, and if editors and publishers want a homogeneous and tidy end product, they will pay a good deal of attention to body style – as must the proofreader. As far as typesetters are concerned, body text, or body copy, is the basic paragraph style of the book, excluding tables, figures, notes, etc. For the purposes of this section of the course, however, body text is taken as being that which is neither prelims nor end matter.
Typeface
We will see how type is measured, with point size and leading, and have dealt with the parts of typesetting that are of interest to proofrea
