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  2. Margin (typography) - Wikipedia

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    A diagram displaying equal margins of width 25mm on an A4 page. In typography, a margin is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. [1] The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends. When a page is justified the text is spread out to be flush with the left and right margins.

  3. Word equation - Wikipedia

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    A word equation is a formal equality:= = between a pair of words and , each over an alphabet comprising both constants (c.f. ) and unknowns (c.f. ). [1] An assignment h {\displaystyle h} of constant words to the unknowns of E {\displaystyle E} is said to solve E {\displaystyle E} if it maps both sides of E {\displaystyle E} to identical words.

  4. Standard manuscript format - Wikipedia

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    1, 1.25 or 1.5 inch margins. Paragraph indentation of 0.5 inches. Printed one-sided with black ink. On the first page of the document, the author's name and contact information appears in the top left corner. In the top right corner of the first page, the word count appears. [1] Subsequent pages only have text in the top right corner.

  5. Ruled paper - Wikipedia

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    It has 12 in (12.7 mm) spacing between ruling lines, with a single margin drawn down the center of the page. Wide ruled (or legal ruled) paper has 11 ⁄ 32 in (8.7 mm) spacing between horizontal lines, with a vertical margin drawn about 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (32 mm) from the left-hand edge of the page. It is commonly used by American ...

  6. Canons of page construction - Wikipedia

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    The resulting inner margin is one-half of the outer margin, and of proportions 2:3:4:6 (inner:top:outer:bottom) when the page proportion is 2:3 (more generally 1:R:2:2R for page proportion 1:R [7]). This method was discovered by Van de Graaf, and used by Tschichold and other contemporary designers; they speculate that it may be older. [ 8 ]

  7. Characters per line - Wikipedia

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    Standard paper sizes, such as the international standard A4, also impose limitations on line length: using the US standard Letter paper size (8.5×11"), it is only possible to print a maximum of 85 or 102 characters (with the font size either 10 or 12 characters per inch) without margins on the typewriter. With various margins – usually from ...

  8. Foolscap folio - Wikipedia

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    Folded foolscap was often 12 + 12 by 16 inches (317 mm × 406 mm), but smaller and larger sizes were also found. [14] Legal foolscap of 8 by 24 inches (203 mm × 610 mm) was always sold ruled and folded in half at the printers by a folding machine , resulting in a leaflet 8 by 12 inches (203 mm × 305 mm), almost the same as modern A4 ...

  9. Typographic unit - Wikipedia

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    The traditional typographic units are based either on non-metric units, or on odd multiples (such as 35 ⁄ 83) of a metric unit.There are no specifically metric units for this particular purpose, although there is a DIN standard sometimes used in German publishing, which measures type sizes in multiples of 0.25 mm, and proponents of the metrication of typography generally recommend the use of ...