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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

  3. Canons of page construction - Wikipedia

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    Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.

  4. Book size - Wikipedia

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    The sizes of books of the same format will differ in proportion to the full sheets used to print them. For example, a typical octavo printed in Italy or France in the 16th century is roughly the size of a modern mass market paperback book, but an English 18th-century octavo is noticeably larger, more like a modern trade paperback or hardcover ...

  5. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, flush-right alignment is used to set off special text in English, such as attributions to authors of quotes printed in books and magazines, or text associated with an image to its right. Flush right is often used when formatting tables of data. It is used to align text to the right margin; in this case, the left ends will be unequal.

  6. Book design - Wikipedia

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    Page spread with J. A. van de Graaf's construction of classical text area (print space) and margin proportions [16] A basic unit in book design is the page spread. The left page and right page (called verso and recto respectively, in left-to-right language books) are of the same size and aspect ratio, and are centered on the gutter where they ...

  7. Octavo - Wikipedia

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    Octavo metrics compared to the folio and quarto. Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", [1] (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book.

  8. Customize your Inbox theme, font size and layout in AOL Mail

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    1. Click the Settings Icon. 2. Under "Inbox Spacing," select one of the following options:. - Small - Medium - Large

  9. Page layout - Wikipedia

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    Size of page margins; Use of color printing or spot color for emphasis; Use of special effects like overlaying text on an image, runaround and intrusions, or bleeding an image over the page margin; Specific elements to be laid out might include: Boxouts and sidebars, which present information as asides from the main text flow