Cache |
Memory space, containing temporary stored data for quick access; (GN4) data loaded during startup that cannot be refreshed except by shutting down and restarting a GN4 application. |
Caliper |
Paper thickness, usually in thousandths of an inch. Also called bulk. |
Callout |
A label for identifying part of an illustration. |
Camel cap |
See intercap. |
Cap height |
Capital height; the height of uppercase letters. |
Cap line |
An imaginary line drawn at the cap height. |
Caption |
A phrase or sentence that accompanies a image. Also called a legend or cutline. |
Caret |
The I beam text cursor. |
Cascading styles |
(GN4) multi-part paragraph styles in which parts are activated, inserting the Bell character; |
Case |
Property of a letter or line of text (i.e., uppercase, lowercase, or a mix of both as in sentence case or title case). |
Categories |
(GN4) classification method for content. |
Ceceril |
The letter ç with a cedilla accent. |
Cedilla |
The bottom accent as in this letter e. |
Centered |
Text aligned about the midpoint of left and right margins. |
Chained styles |
(GN4) The list of paragraph styles, chained together, so that on pressing 8 in a paragraph formatted by any chained style, the next paragraph is automatically formatted in "next" chained style. |
Character |
A single letter or symbol. |
Character map |
The character map is used to insert extended characters not found on most keyboards into a publication. These include characters provided in symbol and dingbat fonts and foreign characters. |
Character set |
The complete collection of alphanumeric, punctuation marks, and special characters that make up a specific font. |
Character styles |
(GN4) the styles which can be applied on a selected part on text. |
Character-delimited file |
A text file output from a database program, using special characters (delimiters such as tabs, commas, etc.) to indicate breaks between fields and records. |
Chaser |
A late edition of the newspaper for which the presses are not stopped until the plates are ready. Those pages, then, are said to be "chasing" a running press. The longer it takes for them to get there, the more papers are missed. |
Checking-out |
(GN4) the procedure of opening content in an exclusive mode, so other users cannot edit them. |
Chevrons |
Quotes as " and ". |
Circulation |
The total number of copies of a publication distributed to subscribers and vendors in one day. |
Circumflex |
The accent as in this letter Â. |
City editor |
The editor in charge of the collection, writing and editing of local news. |
Classified advertising |
Advertising arranged according to the product or service advertised, and usually restricted in size and format. The ads are "classified" into various categories such as help wanted, autos for sale, apartments for rent, etc. |
Clean copy |
Copy requiring few corrections. |
Clean proof |
A proof requiring few corrections. |
Client |
When two computers are connected, the client makes use of data management services on the other, known as the server. |
Clip |
Abbreviation for a clipping from a newspaper or from the files of the newspaper's library. |
Clipart |
Collections of images that provide general or specific images to be used within a publication. |
Clipboard |
A Windows accessory that holds the most recently cut or copied object from an application, ready to be pasted into the same, or a different application. (GN4) a session-wide collection of items |
Clipping path |
The path which marks the silhouette of a graphic with transparent or removed background. |
Clustered servers |
Multiple servers which appear to users as single server. |
CMYK |
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and black (Key). CMYK is the four-color process ink model used to render color images in print. |
Color |
"coloring a story" implies introducing an element of bias or editorial point of view. "Giving a story color" means brightening the story with human interest material. |
Color process |
The color separation and screening stages of production. Direct color process accomplishes both in a single photographic step; indirect requires two steps. |
Color separation |
The process that allows continuous-tone color artwork to be broken into monochrome components, one for each of four colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black), for reproduction in presses. |
Column |
(1) area on a news page usually 10 to 14 picas wide or 8 picas wide on a classified page (2) article appearing regularly, written by a writer or "columnist" |
Column inch |
In newspaper terms, a space one column wide by one inch long. |
Column rule |
A vertical ruled line separating adjacent columns of text. |
Columnist |
A writer using the same space daily, in contrast to a reporter |
Comic |
A sequence of drawings, either in color or black and white, relating a comic incident, an adventure or mystery story, etc., often serialized, typically having dialogue printed in balloons, and usually printed as a horizontal strip in daily newspapers and in an uninterrupted block or longer sequence of such strips in Sunday newspapers and in comic books. |
Commercial printer |
A printing company that handles jobs ranging from tabloid newspapers to four-color brochures |
Comp, comprehensive |
A pre-print replica of a final layout or design. |
Compensation (vertical) |
(GN4) shifting of a type baseline up, so the uppercases touch the top of text frame. |
Compose |
To type copy into a computer file. |
Composition |
The overall appearance of a newspaper page. |
Condensed type |
Type in which individual characters are narrower than normal, giving more characters per line. The opposite is expanded type. |
Configuration files |
(GN4) XML files in the Config sub-directories. |
Conical fill |
In a draw program, a type of gradient fill using two or more colors that blend around the sides of an imaginary "cone." |
Constraining |
To limit variability or restrict proportions when drawing or redrawing an object; for example, to draw an oval as a circle, or keep a image at its original aspect ratio. |
Continued line |
A line of text that indicates that an article is continued on a subsequent page or pages. Also called a jump line. |
Continuous-tone art |
Artwork (such as photographs) with a gradation of tonal values. |
Conversion |
Change of file format, eg. GN4 text to HTML, or GN4 page to PDF. |
Copy |
(1) all written material (2) reproducing materials using a photocopier |
Copy desk |
The desk where articles are edited, headlines and captions are written, newspaper style is enforced and deadlines are either made or missed. |
Copy editor |
A person who corrects or edits copy written by reporters, checks stories for accuracy. Also called slot man. |
Copy fitting |
The process of editing text to fit into a required space. |
Copy tasting |
The process of reading and evaluating text. |
Copy editing |
Correcting, improving and marking copy to be printed |
Copy flow |
The data flow in an editorial system. GN4 copy flow is based on folders and calendars. |
Copyright |
Legal ownership of a work by the creator. Protection of an author's exclusive right to his or her work for a specified period of time |
Correspondent |
A reporter assigned to cover work away from the home office in another city, state or country. A "string" correspondent is not a full-time employee of the newspaper, and is paid according to the quantity of copy accepted by the newspaper. See also stringer. |
Counter |
The negative space of a letter form. May be fully enclosed, e.g. the inner space in the letter d, or partially enclosed, as in the letter G. |
Cover |
To get all the available news about an event |
Cover story |
An article highlighted by an illustration on the cover |
cq |
Correct as is; lets copy editors know that something has been checked and needs no further checking. Usually, these letters are put just after the copy they refer to. |
Creation order |
(GN4) The order in which page objects are created. Displayed in a title bar of any Fred4's panel, as #number. |
Credentials |
Sign-in information, typically user name and password, but it may signify also domain name and pass-phrase. |
Credit line |
A photographer's byline. The name of the person or organization responsible for making or distributing a photograph, usually appearing small type under the reproduced image |
Cromalin |
A make of color-accurate proof used to check color separations or final layouts. They are composed from four layers of plastic that simulate the process colors and are bound together to resemble a printed page. |
Crop |
To change the composition of a image by cutting part of it out. A image may be cropped to remove undesired background, to create more impact or to adjust the photograph to available space on the printed page. |
Crop marks |
Symbols placed in the margin outside the page area that indicate the area to be printed and/or trimmed. |
Cropping |
The masking of parts of a photograph or other original that are not required to be printed. |
Crossbar |
(typography) the horizontal part of the letterform that connects a stem to a hairline, as the horizontal rule in H. |
Crossover |
When a layout element extends across the gutter, between facing pages. Also called gutter bleed. |
Crusade |
A newspaper campaign to bring about a desired reform or improvement |
Cub |
A beginning reporter |
Current |
(format) The format, applied on text; (text); the linked text, actually in focus. |
Cursive |
Typefaces which imitate handwriting, but (unlike script faces) without connected letters. Also italic. |
Cursor |
Blinking item which marks the intervention point in text. |
Curves |
(converting to) Operation of converting text in a frame, usually in headline type size, to drawings. |
Cut |
(1) noun a drawing or illustration usually copied off of computer disk libraries (2) verb to reduce the length of a story |
Cutline |
The copy (usually only a few lines) that accompanies and gives necessary information about a image or "cut". |
Cutoff rule |
A horizontal ruled line separating a block of text from different material below it. |
Cut-out |
A particular image cropping where only parts extend from the main rectangular shape, e.g. an arm on a human figure. |