The "Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst brings the reader's attention to many common sense guidelines that validate and are pertinent to this author's work in reformatting texts for novice Hebrew readers, such as:

• "typography exists to honor content" (p. 17)
  
  
• "read the text before designing it" (p. 20)
  
  
• "discover the outer logic of the typography" (p. 20)
  
  
• "make a visible relationship between the text and other elements a reflection of their real relationship" (p. 21)
  
  
• "give full typographic attention even to incidental details" (p. 24)
  
  
• "set ragged if ragged setting suits the text and the page" (p. 27)
  
  
• "don't stretch the space until it breaks" (p. 35)
  
  
• "choose a basic leading that suits the typeface, text and measure" (p. 36)
  
  
• "mark each beginning and resumption of the text" (p. 63)
  
  
• "choose faces that suit the task as well as the subject" (p. 95)

Each of these selected guidelines and maxims will be related to the formatting standard presented later in this thesis. In general, Bringhurst notes that "typography should perform these services for the reader to:

• invite the reader into the text;
• reveal the tenor and meaning of the text;
• clarify the structure and the order of the text;
• link the text with other existing elements;
• induce a state of energetic repose, which is the ideal condition for reading" (p. 24)