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  2. Optical margin alignment - Wikipedia

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    If text frames are not visible, e.g. in print preview, or when printed, the edge of a block of text looks more even if optical margin alignment is enabled. From the earliest days of machine printing, punctuation and drop capitals were indented slightly into the margin, as can be seen in the pages of the Gutenberg Bible [1] in the British Library.

  3. Slug (typesetting) - Wikipedia

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    Whole line type slug, print side. When printed, it reads "Sefan Kühn". Movable type on a composing stick on a type case, selected from a box of individual sorts. In typesetting, a slug is any of several kinds of piece of lead or other type metal. One kind of slug is a piece of spacing material used to space paragraphs.

  4. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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    The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a point has been between 0.18 and 0.4 millimeters . Following the advent of desktop publishing in the 1980s and 1990s, digital printing has largely supplanted the letterpress printing and has established the desktop publishing ( DTP ) point as ...

  5. Typesetting - Wikipedia

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    The size of the type was determined by the size of the character on the face of the sort. A compositor would need to physically swap out the sorts for a different size to change the font size. During typesetting, individual sorts are picked from a type case with the right hand, and set from left to right into a composing stick held in the left ...

  6. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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    In printing, three pica measures are used: The French pica of 12 Didot points (also called cicero) generally is: 12 × 0.376 = 4.512 mm (0.1776 in). The American pica of 0.16604 inches (4.217 mm). It was established by the United States Type Founders' Association in 1886. [1] [2] In TeX one pica is 400 ⁄ 2,409 of an inch.

  7. Adjust your mail zoom settings in AOL Desktop Gold

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    You may encounter issues while trying to read certain emails due to various reasons like the screen resolution and the font size and style. Desktop Gold lets you choose whether you want to change the default zoom level for emails or change the zoom level on individual emails. Temporarily change the zoom level on the email you're currently reading

  8. Leading - Wikipedia

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    Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with 50% leading: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of ...

  9. Small caps - Wikipedia

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    Small caps, petite caps and italic used for emphasis True small caps (top), compared with scaled small caps (bottom), generated by OpenOffice.org Writer. In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures. [1]