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 produced. When lozenge indention can be made without uneven spacing or bad divisions, the effect

is pleasing, but it is unwisely attempted within a narrow measure and with capital letters only.

This form of indention is largely used by French printers for the mottos of title-pages and for paragraphs that call for special attention. To make it the compositor fills up one half or more of the measure at the left with quadrats, and sets the motto in small type, so that print shall appear on the right

half of the title-page. It is a form used in England and America almost exclusively for some forms of law work in which the mannerisms of early Norman copyists are still maintained. It gives a marked prominence to subject-matter, but the composition so treated is always unsymmetrical.