Daily |
Refers to newspapers that print a new newspaper each day. |
Dash |
A short horizontal rule used for punctuation; (in GN4), dashed/dotted rules. |
Database |
a huge "file", containing editorial data. |
Database server |
(GN4) The server computer with GN4 SQL databases. |
Dateline |
In a newsletter-style publication, a line below the title that can include the volume, number, date, location, etc. Also line at the beginning of a story for out of town that indicates both the place and the date of origin of the story. |
DDE |
Dynamic data exchange between applications on a computer. |
Deadline |
The last moment to get copy in for an edition. Every paper has dozens in a day for the hundreds of parts that go into it. You might ask what the deadline is for the piece you are working on, the deadline for the last type to be set or the time when the presses should start. |
Debug |
(version) The application with additional code, which helps to identify buggy parts. |
Deck |
A line following a headline that gives extra information. Also called a tagline. Also a "bank" or section of a headline. 3-deck headline = headline in 3 lines. |
Deep etch |
Clip a image to remove its background |
Defaults |
Values, offered as predefined in dialog boxes; (of text*), typographical format for raw text. |
Depth |
(of text) The length of text, expressed in a typographical measure. |
Descender |
The lowest portion of letters, such as 'g' or 'j,' that extends below the baseline. |
Descent |
For a given font, its maximum distance below the baseline. |
Desks |
(GN4) Element of copy flow organizing, e.g. "News" or "Features", typically grouping set of folders. |
Desktops |
(GN4) Saved displacement of application windows, toolbars and other items. The GN4 term is 'workspace' |
Destinations |
(for images) Set of configuration items, applied on a wire image, when an user wants to copy it for further processing. Include: the destination directory, processing methods, resolution, and other. |
Dictionaries |
(hyphenation exceptions) files with words containing hyphenation points; (spelling), binary files with list of correctly spelled words; (spelling exceptions), binary files with words, typically proper names, to ensure correct spelling; (options d.) |
Dieresis |
The accent as in this letter ë. |
Dingbats |
A typeface which contains decorative symbols rather than readable characters. Once known as printer's flowers. |
Directory listing |
(GN4) A listing with text, pages, images, editions, etc. |
Directory style |
(GN4) Set of properties, applied on a directory listing, such as colors, header names, type size, default order of columns, default sort order, list of available sort order etc. |
Discretionary hyphen |
Manually inserted hyphen. |
Dispatch |
A news story transmitted to a newspaper, wire service, or the like, by one of its reporters, or by a wire service to a newspaper or other news agency. |
Display ad |
Advertising matter other than in-column classified ads. They usually have a border. Larger advertisements containing art work and other information that tells the customer about a business, a product or a service. |
Display type |
Large type, often set in bold for attention grabbing text like headlines or headers. Same as decorative type. |
Dithering |
An "in-betweening" method by which a program (such as a paint program or Web browser) preset to display a palette of 256 colors approximates images with more than 256 colors. For example, the program may alternate pixels of red and blue from within its palette to simulate a violet color outside the palette. |
DNS |
Domain Name Server. Software that converts host names to IP addresses and searches for them. |
Dog watch |
The late shift on a morning paper, or the earliest shift on an afternoon paper. |
Doghouse |
The accent as in this letter î. |
Dongle |
The protection hardware key - not required in GN4 |
Dot gain |
When a page is printed, each dot of ink tends to spread as it is applied to the paper; this spreading is called dot gain. |
Dotaccent |
The accent as in this letter Z. |
Double acute |
The accent as in this letter u. |
Double truck |
An ad or editorial project that covers two facing pages. If it prints across the gutter between the two pages, and if the pages are on the same sheet, rather than two adjacent sheets, it might be called a "true" double truck. This name comes from the days when the heavy forms for newspaper pages, largely filled with lead type, were rolled around the composing room floor on heavy carts called trucks. Two pages for one project meant a double truck. |
Downstyle |
Capitalizing only the first word and proper nouns in headlines |
DPI |
Dots per inch, a measurement of resolution. More dots per inch equals higher resolution. See LPI. |
Draw graphic / program |
A computer graphic image stored as a mathematical representation using line segments, curves, and filled regions. Small in size, draw files can be easily reduced, enlarged or transformed without loss of quality. Also called vector graphic; program = An application (such as an illustration program) for creating and manipulating draw graphics. |
Drop |
(1) short for "drop head", a headline accompanying a streamer and based on the same story. (2) a story that was planned to run and then didn't. |
Drop cap |
An enlarged initial letter that drops below the first line of a paragraph. |
Drop folio |
Page number place at foot of page. Compare blind folio. |
Drop paragraph |
A paragraph that begins directly below the period ending the preceding paragraph. |
Drop shadow |
A copy of a line of type, image, or graphic dropped behind the original and recolored (or shaded) to create a shadow. |
Dummy |
A diagram or layout of a newspaper page showing the position each story, image, headline and advertisement is to have; (image) - a booked named space for a image or add. As soon a image with the same name and dimensions is dropped to BACK4, dummy is replaced with the image. |
Dumps |
(of a database) database file in a format suitable to be copied elsewhere. (GN4) Database dumps are created by the maintenance procedure. / directory = A directory on the database server, where database dumps are created by the maintenance procedure. |