Glossary of Typesetting Terms (Chicago Guides to Writing Editing and Publishing)

About this book

Glossary of Typesetting Terms is an up-to-date reference book on the craft of typography. It organizes a dictionary and a style guide into a single one-stop resource. Prepared by a team of leading professionalsa designer an editor compositors and production managersthis glossary will be valuable to anyone who works in publishing or printing for its definitions of typographical terms and concise treatment of typographical style. The glossary adds important details to discussions of typography that are covered more generally in editorial style guides such as The Chicago Manual of Style. It is indispensable to anyone who prepares text for a living including those who implement their own typesetting decisions with the aid of word-processing and page-layout software. This manual furnishes a common technical vocabulary for specialists and nonspecialists alike. More than 900 entries provide up-to-date meanings for traditional terms like kerning bleed and thumbnail and definitions of new phrases like global search and replace H & J (hyphenation and justification) and idiot file that have been developed to describe the role of computer technology in typesetting. Eight appendixes offer additional guidance. The house style sheets of a major typesetter provide a sample checklist of items that affect the way in which words are composed into professional-quality type. Other appendixes cover families of type the parts of a book diagrams of the parts of a letter coding and marking a manuscript in the precise language of typesetters writing specifications for tables proofreaders marks and special characters. No other reference book makes the vocabulary and practices of contemporary typesetting so accessible.