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  2. Column (typography) - Wikipedia

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    In typography, a column is one or more vertical blocks of content positioned on a page, separated by gutters (vertical whitespace) or rules (thin lines, in this case vertical). Columns are most commonly used to break up large bodies of text that cannot fit in a single block of text on a page. Additionally, columns are used to improve page ...

  3. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    The classical Western column did not rigorously justify, but came as close as feasible when the skill of the penman and the character of the manuscript permitted. Historically, both scribal and typesetting traditions took advantage of abbreviations ( sigla ), ligatures , and swashes to help maintain the rhythm and colour of a justified line.

  4. Monospaced font - Wikipedia

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    A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. [ 1 ] [ a ] This contrasts with variable-width fonts , where the letters and spacings have different widths.

  5. Whitespace character - Wikipedia

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    Normally a vertical line in vertical text or a horizontal line in horizontal text, but may also be a blank space in "stemless" fonts. Requires an Ogham font. en quad: U+2000: 8192 Yes: No Common: General Punctuation: Separator, space Width of one en. U+2002 is canonically equivalent to this character; U+2002 is preferred. em quad: U+2001: 8193 ...

  6. Box-drawing characters - Wikipedia

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    Midnight Commander using box-drawing characters in a terminal emulator. Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes.

  7. Help:Whitespace - Wikipedia

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    Whitespace cannot easily be avoided when a page with little text, often a stub, contains an infobox or similar vertical template that is quite tall along with a navbox or similar horizontal template at the bottom, and the amount of text on the page takes up far less space than the template to the left. Even without a horizontal template, there ...

  8. Vertical blanking interval - Wikipedia

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    1135×624 4fsc decoded frame (Luma) from a Composite 4fsc decode of a LaserDisc via ld-decode.. In a raster scan display, the vertical blanking interval (VBI), also known as the vertical interval or VBLANK, is the time between the end of the final visible line of a frame or field [1] [2] and the beginning of the first visible line of the next frame or field.

  9. Genkō yōshi - Wikipedia

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    Genkō yōshi is used for vertical writing (although by turning the page sideways it can be used for horizontal writing too), and is most commonly printed in columns of twenty squares, with ten columns per page (each B4-sized sheet of genkō yōshi comprising two pages), but other configurations are also available.