Accent |
Marking placed above, below or through a character to alter its pronunciation |
Accent marks |
Marks added to letters to indicate specific pronunciation. acute, asciitilde, breve, caron (check), cedilla, circumflex (doghouse), dieresis (German umlaut), dotaccent, grave, double acute (hungarumlaut), macron, ogonek, ring (bolle), tilde |
Ace |
Assistant City Editor |
Acute |
See accent marks. |
Ad |
Advertisement |
Ad flow |
Shuffling classified ads within their categories so that they fit best on a page |
Advance |
(1) a preliminary story concerning a future event; (2) the position of a character, or set of characters, in relation to the baseline. |
Advance width |
See set-width. |
Advertising |
Commercial messages that announce merchandise or services for sale. |
Agate |
Type 5 1/2 points in depth, the smallest ordinarily used in newspapers (72 points equal one inch). Usually used for sports statistics |
Air |
White space on a printed page |
Alert |
Mechanism used to automatically update data. |
Align |
To line up objects, using a base or vertical line as a reference point, or place paragraph text in relation to its margins, or an object in relation to other objects or page. |
Ampersand |
& symbol developed from the Latin et, meaning "and." |
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute; a quasi-standard set of 256 characters that extends the ASCII set for Microsoft Windows. To enter any character in a Windows environment, hold down the ALT key and enter "0" followed by the character's ANSI value on the numeric keypad. |
Anti aliasing |
Smoothing out contrast differences between edge pixels. Routinely applied in high-color work for screen or page to text over 14pt. An essential step to prevent the dread jaggies. |
Apex |
The point of a character where two lines meet at the top, an example of this is the top point on the letter A. |
Archive |
Permanently stored published items |
Arm |
A horizontal portion of a letter form, one or both ends of which are unattached to the vertical portion(s). |
Article |
(GN4) Main unit of content in GN4. An article contains text, meta-data and non-textual elements: images, audios, videos, other documents (e.g. PDF) or binary files. The number, type and order of elements in an article is automatically controlled by the system. |
Ascender |
Any part of a lower case letter extending above the x-height. For example, the upper half of the vertical in the letters b or h. |
Ascent |
For a given font, its maximum distance above the baseline. |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange; a standard set of 128 characters. Files saved in the ASCII "plain text" format include alphanumeric characters, tabs, and carriage returns, but not paragraph formats or character formatting such as bold or italic. The ANSI character set extends ASCII on Windows computers. |
Asciitilde |
Character #175 |
Aspect ratio |
The proportions of a graphic element, i.e. the relationship of its height and width |
Assignment |
Any news-gathering task given to a reporter; (GN4) a provisory link between a text or a image, to an edition, section, zone, or page. |
Audit trail |
(GN4) footprints (action, date & time, username etc), applied on content. |
Available styles |
(GN4) The list of styles in all style libraries, attached to the current format, applied to text. |