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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. Column inch - Wikipedia

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    A column inch is a unit of space one column wide by 1 inch (25 mm) high. ... Newspaper pages are laid out on a grid that consists of a margin on 4 sides, ...

  4. Seam allowance - Wikipedia

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    Sewing industry seam allowances range from 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6.4 mm) for curved areas (e.g. neck line, armscye) or hidden seams (e.g. facing seams), to 1 inch (25 mm) or more for areas that require extra fabric for final fitting to the wearer (e.g. center back). Curved seams generally have a smaller seam allowance than straight seams; bulky seams ...

  5. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    justified—text is aligned along the left margin, with letter-spacing and word-spacing adjusted so that the text falls flush with both margins, also known as fully justified or full justification; centered—text is aligned to neither the left nor right margin; there is an even gap on each side of each line.

  6. Ruled paper - Wikipedia

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    It has 1 ⁄ 2 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 ...

  7. 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"

  8. Paper size - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, a number of different sizes were defined for large sheets of paper, and paper sizes were defined by the sheet name and the number of times it had been folded. Thus a full sheet of "royal" paper was 25 × 20 inches, and "royal octavo" was this size folded three times, so as to make eight sheets, and was thus 10 × 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 ...

  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 ...