German: Kolumnenschnur
Related Term(s): Standing matter
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String used for tying up a columns or pages of letterpress type after making up. This is done to to secure the columns or pages temporarily until they are imposed or to store them (see standing matter).
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Term overview
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- [Book] edges
- Ampersand
- Anti-aliasing
- Aperture
- Apex
- Ascender
- Asterisk
- At sign
- Backslanted (reverse italic)
- Ball terminal
- Baseline
- Beak
- Bed
- Binocular g
- Black
- Blackletter (Gothic script)
- Block gauge
- Bodkin
- Body (Shank)
- Body text
- Bold
- Book cover
- Bracket
- Calligraphy
- Cap height
- Case Sensitive Forms
- Catchword [book]
- Centered [text alignment]
- Character encoding
- Character set
- Character width
- Chase
- Colophon
- Color
- Composing rule
- Composing stick
- Compositor (Typesetter)
- Condensed
- Counter
- Crossbar
- Cyma
- Dash
- Descender
- Desktop Publishing
- Diacritical Mark
- Diagonal Stroke
- Didone (Modern)
- Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
- Display Font
- Distribute, break up
- Double-storey a
- Drop cap
- Ear
- Ellipsis
- Em (Square)
- Em dash
- En
- En dash
- Endband
- Endpaper
- Extended
- Face
- Flong or mat
- Flush left (ragged right)
- Flush right (ragged left)
- Font
- Fore edge
- Foundry Type
- Free endpaper
- Front matter
- Frontispiece
- Furniture
- Galley
- Galley Proof Press
- Galley rack
- Garalde (Aldine)
- Glyph
- Grades
- Groove
- Guillemets (French quotes)
- Gutter or alley
- Half title
- Hand composition
- Hand mould
- Hanging indent (negative indent)
- Hardcover
- Headband
- Headline
- Hinting
- Hook (arch)
- Hot metal typesetting
- Humanist (Venetian)
- Hyphen
- Imposing stone or table
- Ink ball
- Ink trap
- Italics
- Justified
- Kerning
- Keyboard layout
- Latin script (Roman script)
- Leading
- Left sidebearing
- Leg
- Legibility
- Letter
- Letter-board cabinet
- Lettering
- Letterpress [printing]
- Letterpress cabinet
- Ligature
- Light
- Lining figures
- Lino-slug cutter
- Logographic Printing
- Lower lobe
- Lowercase
- Matrix
- Mixed case
- Monolinear
- Monospaced
- Moveable type
- Nick
- Oil stone
- Oldstyle figures
- Optical sizes
- Orphan
- Overshoot
- Page cord
- Paperback
- Paragraph rule
- Pastedown endpaper
- Petite caps
- Phototypesetting
- Plakadur
- Planer
- Platen
- Point
- Point size (type size)
- Printer’s mark
- Printing block
- Proportional Figures
- Pull quote
- Punch
- Punchcutter
- Punchcutting
- Punctuation
- Quadrat-high
- Quoin key
- Quoins
- r rotunda
- Readability
- Right sidebearing
- River
- Roman (upright)
- Sans serif
- Script [type style]
- Script [Writing System]
- Semibold
- Serif
- Shoulder [Metal Type]
- Single-storey a
- Slab Serif
- Slash
- Slug (Linotype)
- Small Caps
- Softcover
- Sort
- Spacing
- Spacing material
- Spine [Book]
- Spur
- Standard Ligatures (liga)
- Standing matter
- Stem
- Stereotype
- Stress
- Strikethrough (strikeout)
- Stroke contrast
- Style
- Super family
- Swash
- Tabular figures
- Tail
- Tailband
- Tapered centring
- Terminal
- Text block [book]
- Title page
- Tracking (letter-spacing)
- Transitional (realist)
- Tympan
- Type case
- Type founder
- Type foundry
- Type height gauge
- Type specimen
- Type-high
- Typeface
- Typographer
- Typography
- Typometer
- Underline (underscore)
- Unicase (unicameral alphabet)
- Upper lobe
- Uppercase (caps)
- Variable fonts
- Vertex
- Vignette
- Waist
- Weight
- White space
- Widow
- Word spacing
- x-height
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