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  • 101Widows and orphans — A widowed line: the last line of a paragraph, all alone on the other side of a page break. At the end of the first paragraph, the word lorem is an orphan in the second sense: a very short final line that, because the rest of its line is white,… …

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  • 102Point (typography) — Point, in typography, may also refer to a dot grapheme (e.g.: full stop; Interpunct) as in the expression, decimal point. For non typographical uses, see Point (disambiguation). Contents 1 French printer’s points …

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  • 103Computer font — This article is about font technology. For information about the typographic appearance of individual font sets, see Typefaces. A computer font (or font) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as… …

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  • 104Peak programme meter — A typical British quasi PPM. Each division between 1 and 7 is exactly four decibels and 6 is the intended maximum level. A peak programme meter (PPM) is an instrument used in professional audio for indicating the level of an audio signal. There… …

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  • 105Punchcutting — In traditional typography, punchcutting is the craft of cutting letter punches in steel from which matrices were made in copper for type founding in the letterpress era. Cutting punches and casting type was the first step of traditional… …

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  • 106Font — This article is about the traditional meaning of font . For the electronic data file, see Computer font. For other uses, see Font (disambiguation). In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete… …

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  • 107Pagination — For other uses, see Pagination (disambiguation). Pagination is the process of dividing information (content) into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages. Today the latter are usually simply instances of the former that have been …

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  • 108Initial — For other uses, see Initial (disambiguation). A historiated illuminated initial In a written or published work, an initial is a letter at the beginning of a work, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is… …

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  • 109George Soros — Infobox Celebrity name = George Soros imagesize = 300px caption = George Soros speaking in Malaysia birth date = birth date and age|1930|08|12 birth place = Budapest, Hungary death date = death place = occupation = speculator, investor,… …

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  • 110Embedded OpenType — Filename extension .eot Internet media type application/vnd.ms fontobject Type of format outline font Embedded OpenType (EOT) fonts are a compact form of OpenType fonts designed by Microsoft for use as embedded fonts on web pages. These files… …

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