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  2. Margin (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Margins also play an important role in digital word-processing and can be changed using the page setup menu. The default margins for Microsoft Word from version 2007 onward have been 1 inch (25.4 mm) all around; in Word 2003, the default top and bottom margins were 1 inch (25.4 mm), but 1.25 inches (31.7 mm) were given at the left and the right.

  3. Canons of page construction - Wikipedia

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    Using the canon, the proportions are maintained while creating pleasing and functional margins of size 1/9 and 2/9 of the page size. [6] 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]).

  4. Characters per line - Wikipedia

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    With various margins – usually from 11.5 inches (25–38 mm) for each side, but there is no strict standard – these numbers may shrink to 55–78 CPL. Typometer with the characters per line scales A Fortran coding form (paper). Source code has 72 CPL, but a form is 80-characters wide. Last 8 positions are "identification sequence"

  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. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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    A less precise definition is one pica equals 0.166 inches (4.2 mm), and one point 0.01383 inches (0.351 mm). [ 27 ] [ 33 ] It was also noticed that 83 picas is nearly equal to 35 cm, so the Type Founders Association also suggested using a 35 cm metal rod for measurements, but this was not accepted by every foundry.

  9. Pitch (typewriter) - Wikipedia

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    Pitch is the number of letters, numbers and spaces in one inch (25.4 mm) of running text, that is, characters per inch (abbreviated cpi), measured horizontally. [1] [2] The pitch was most often used as a measurement of the size of typewriter fonts as well as those of impact printers used with computers.