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| the part of a lowercase letter that rises above the main body as in the letter b |
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| the part of a lowercase letter that extends below the main body as in the letter p |
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| the height of the main body of lowercase letters excluding ascenders and descenders |
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| the invisible line on which type sits (excluding descenders) |
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| type that is more slender or narrow than normal |
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| type whose width is greater than normal (also called extended type) |
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| a mark near or through a character or combination of characters indicating a phonetic value different from that given the unmarked or otherwise marked element |
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| type set larger than the text, as in headings |
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| a large or ornate letter at the beginning of a paragraph, also called an initial cap |
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| rows of dashes or dots (periods) to guide the eye across the page. Used in tabular work, programs, tables of contents, etc. |
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| the distance between lines of type, measured in points |
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| numerals with ascender and descenders that blend well with lowercase letters |
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| a font whose characters each take up the same amount of space. That is, a period uses the same width of space as a capital W |
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| a word space that keeps two words together, preventing them from breaking onto two separate lines |
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| a small space (1/3 of an em) added between characters |
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| a very small space (1/5 of an em) added between characters |
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| serifs are the short cross-lines at the ends of the main strokes of many letters in roman typefaces. Sans serif refers to a font that has no serifs |
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| a small character written lower or higher than another one, such as a footnote number |
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| an abbreviation for hyphenation and justification, a stage in typesetting; also refers to a set of standards controlling hyphenation and justification |
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| (opposite of monospace type) a font in which characters each take up a relative, or proportional, amount of space according to how wide they are. That is, a cap W takes up more space than a lowercase i |
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| a printer's unit of measurement used principally for specifying type sizes and leading. There are 12 points to a pica and approximately 72 points to an inch |
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| printer's unit of measurement used principally in typesetting. A pica equals 12 points or approximately 1/6 of an inch |
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| soft hyphen/discretionary |
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| a hypen that divides a word at the end of a line of type but dissapears if the word no longer falls at the end of a line |
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| page number printed at the center of the bottom of the page when other folios are printed elsewhere; often used on the first page of a chapter |
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| a two-color halftone reproduction from a one-color photograph |
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| type that is justified on the left margin and ragged on the right or justified on the right and ragged on the left |
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| lines spaced to line up uniformly on the left and right (opposite is ragged right or left composition) |
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| headings, or titles, for sections within a chapter or article. Subheads are usually set in type differing in some way from that of the text; for example in boldface, all caps, caps and small caps, or upper- and lowercase italic |
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| typesetter term for a drawn line; a rule's thickness is measured in points as in a 3-point rule |
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| the blank space between page columns; also sometimes refers to the inner margin space between the printing area and the spine |
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| to manupliate an image of type or a drawing so that it appears in white surrounded by a solid block of color or black |
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| text repeated at the bottom or top of each page |
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| runover line (runover text) |
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| text that is longer than intended, running onto another line |
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| when the first line of a paragraph hangs out to the left of the rest of the paragraph |
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| Chicago's style governing capitalization in titles that capitalizes most words |
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| the right/left hand page of a book |
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| the miniture rendition of a page or an image |
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| Associated Press style for writing and citations |
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| American Psychological Association style for writing and citations |
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| sections of a book that follow the main text section |
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| cataloguing in publication data: the bibliographic record that appears printed on the copyright page |
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| a protective wrapping, usually made of paper, for a clothbound book; its flaps, which fold around the front and back covers, usually carry promotional copy |
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| sections of a book that precede the main text section |
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| International Standard Book Number |
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| a rubber-surfaced fabric that is clamped around a cylinder, to which the image is transferred from the plate, and from which it is transferred to the paper in offset printing |
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| an extra amount of printed image that extends beyond the trim edge of the sheet or page |
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| a measure of the resolution of a screen image or printed page |
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| artwork and text that are ready to be photographed for reproduction without further alteration |
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| a file that is ready to print for publication |
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| the subtractive primaries: yellow, magenta, cyan, plus black in four-color process printing. Referred to as CMYK |
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| the subtractive colors used in color printing (cyan, magenta, yellow) plus black (k) added to enhance color and contrast |
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| the reproduction of isolated graphic elements or display type in a single color using a premixed ink |
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| a system for matching spot colors, used in specifying printing inks |
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| a printing press using paper in pre-cut sheet form |
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| a press that prints on a roll of paper, either roll-to-roll, or with inline folding and cutting to form signatures |
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| the name given to a printed sheet after it has been folded into proper page order |
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| "specifications": a detailed description of a print order |
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| the back of a bound book connecting the two covers |
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| to bind a booklet or magazine by wiring it through the middle fold or spine of folded sheets |
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| binding the glues the edge of sheets to a wraparound cover |
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| a method of binding that encases a book in a rigid cover, or case. The gathered signatures can be sewn together or adhesive bound |
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| bound with a rigid cover, usually cloth wrapped around boards; a form of case binding |
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| a method of sewing that involoves stitching the signatures individually through the fold before binding them; a Smyth-sewn book has the advantage of lying flat when open, unlike a side-sewn or perfect bound book |
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| paper having a surface coating that produces a smooth finish |
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| the process of separating color originals into the primary printing color components for printing; today color separation is totally electronic |
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| the demensions, in inches, of a full page in a publication, including the margins |
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| having the printed image on the plate duplicated, so that two copies of the piece are printed at the same time; the terms three-up, four-up, and so forth are analogous |
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| printing by plateless systems that are imaged directly from digital files, usually using lasers and toner; ink-jet systems |
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| an image that contains gradient tones from black to white, like a photograph |
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| the reproduction of continuous-tone images through a special screening process that converts the image into dots, ready for printing |
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| a grid used in the halftone process to break an image up into dots; the fineness of the screen is denoted in terms of lines per inch as in a 133-line screen |
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| the cylinder on a printing press from which the paper picks up the impression from the inked plate; in offset printing, the impression cylinder is the blanket cylinder |
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| copy for printing that contains only solid blacks and whites such as a pen-and-ink drawing |
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| the undesirable screen pattern caused by incorrect screen angles for the halftones of printed colors |
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| the process of using an intermediate blanket cylinder to transfer an image from printing plate to the paper |
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| when something is printed in incorrect relation to other impressions already printed on the same sheet, such as not aligning the cyan and magenta images correctly |
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| short for "picture element"; a pixel is the smallest unit of scanning and digital imaging |
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| (1) an image-bearing surface that, when inked, will produce one whole page or several pages of printed matter at a time; (2) a printed illustration, usually of high quality and printed on special paper, tipped or bound into a publication, usually in a special section |
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| the ability of an input device to record, or an output device to reproduce the fine detail of an image |
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| the number of copies printed at one time |
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| procedures, such as platemaking, that are performed by a printer prior to putting a publication on the press |
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| the undesirable condition in which the printing on the reverse side of a sheet can be seen through the sheet under normal lighting conditions |
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| a page description language that describes a page-image for printing; it handles both text and graphics |
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| an encapsulated PostScript file; a good way to save a bit-mapped file, which is a file of an image that has been scanned in |
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| portable document format; pdf is a universal electronic file format that is device and resolution independent, so that files in the pdf format can be viewed and printed from any computer to almost any printer |
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| the coded language that is used to create Hypertext documents for use on the web |
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| tagged image format, which was designed for bit-mapped (scanned-in) images; it is optimized for printing photos in publication |
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| an abbreviation for pixels per inch; a measurement of the resoultion of a digital image |
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| optional character recognition; an electronic means of scanning text and converting the scanned image to a text file that can be edited |
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| starting a page or ending a line or paragraph with a break that is considered poor format, such as word division that is not according to the dictionary or breaking a proper noun |
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| the original manuscript used to compare against a more recent copy to which some changes have been made |
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| a single line by itself at the top of a page |
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| poor wordspacing in justified copy creates a "river" of white space that flows vertically through the text |
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| less than a full word as the last line of a paragraph, or the first line of a paragraph alone at the bottom of a column or page |
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| subtracting or adding tiny amounts of space between two characters |
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| subtracting or adding tiny amounts of space between letters in a range of text |
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| the placing of additional space between each letter of a word |
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| a special character combining two or more characters into one |
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| proof showing typeset material that has been paginated to reflect the placement of text, illustrations, and other design elements |
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