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Page 34 - Make a space at the point indicated. Close up or join separated letters or words. Delete or take out.
Page 51 - Scoring. — Making a crease in heavy paper stock, so that it may be folded without breaking. Screen. — A term used in referring to the number of dots to the linear inch in a halftone plate or negative. The screen of a plate is determined by the quality of paper upon which it is to be printed. Script. — A type-face resembling handwriting.
Page 11 - The preface of a book affords the author an opportunity of speaking to his reader in a comparatively direct and personal manner, and of acquainting the prospective user of the book with the considerations which impelled the author to write it. At the end of a preface it is customary for the author to acknowledge the services of those who assisted him in writing the book, or who helped in reading the proofs, or who contributed information, etc. See also front matter.
Page 31 - To reach the goal towards which we are pressing forward, the governing multitude must first acquire knowledge that comes from universal education, wisdom that follows practical experience, personal independence and self-respect befitting men who acknowledge no superior, self-control to replace that external control which a democracy rejects, respect for law, obedience...
Page 41 - Balance. — When a piece of type composition has its various parts so grouped that they are equalized in mass, it is said to possess balance.
Page 51 - ... paper between printed sheets as they come from the press so that the printing on one sheet will offset, if at all, on the slip-sheet, not on another printed sheet. slit-card A kind of poster slit so as to fit into or around a book for display purposes. slugs (1) Pieces of lead, about % inch high, and usually 6 or 12 points thick, used as spacing material between lines of [ 141 ] spine type. (2) The bar of metal with the type cast on it by the Linotype or Intertype is also called a slug. small...
Page 45 - Follow Copy. — An order indicating that the compositor is to set up matter exactly as it appears in copy, making no changes whatever in phraseology, punctuation, capitalization, etc.
Page 44 - Two halftone places made from one copy and usually printed in black and one tint, or two shades of the same color, the two plates made with different screen angles.
Page 36 - All these we must seek by slow and patient effort ; and of how many shortcomings in his own land and among his own people each one of us is conscious. Yet no student of our times...
Page 41 - SJ-point under the point system. Albertype. — A Collotype process of printing in ink from a sensitized gelatin plate. Invented by Joseph Albert. See Collotype. Alignment. — When different sizes of type are so justified that their faces align at the bottom, they are said to be in alignment. Antique. — A name given to a type-face. The side-headings in this book are set in 10-point Old-style Antique. Antique Paper. — A book paper that has not gone through the calender, and is without finish....