Glossary for the letter W

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Web browser

A client program used for viewing pages on the World Wide Web.

Weight

The amount of blackness, or stroke width, of a type style (light, bold, demibold, black). Also, a measure of paper thickness.

White space

The page areas containing no text, graphics or images. A vital part of good page layout.

Widow

A single word or short line of type at the end of a paragraph, particularly at the top or bottom of a column or page

Width

The horizontal measure of a letter, described as condensed, normal, or expanded. Also, horizontal scale.

Wire copy

Editorial matter supplied by outside sources, transmitted by wire by news services

Wire photo

Photographs, maps or other illustrations, received by wire.

Wires

The data, incoming via 'wire' from other sources. GN4 processes text and image wires.

WMF

Windows Metafile. A vector file format for exchanging graphics between Microsoft Windows applications.

Word break

The division of a word at the end of a line.

Word spacing

The amount of space between words in a line or paragraph. Unlike letterspacing, it can be varied to adjust line length without affecting readability.

Word wrap

The automatic adjustment of the number of words on a line of text to match the margin settings. The carriage returns set up by this method are termed "soft", as against "hard" carriage returns resulting from the return key being pressed.

World Wide Web

A system of interconnected resources on the Internet, including hypertext and hypermedia, using URLs as addresses.

Wrap outline

An object's editable border that determines how wraparound text flows around the object.

Wraparound

Text that wraps around a graphic, image or other text. Also called text wrap.

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get. A relatively accurate screen representation of the final output. If something is true WYSIWYG, what you see on the screen is identical to what you see in print.