{"product_id":"9780226183732","title":"Glossary of Typesetting Terms","description":"\u003ci\u003eGlossary of Typesetting Terms\u003c\/i\u003e is an up-to-date reference book on the craft of typography. It organizes a dictionary and a style guide into a single, one-stop resource.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Prepared by a team of leading professionals—a designer, an editor, compositors, and production managers—this glossary will be valuable to anyone who works in publishing or printing for its definitions of typographical terms and concise treatment of typographical style.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The glossary adds important details to discussions of typography that are covered more generally in editorial style guides such as \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Manual of Style.\u003c\/i\u003e It is indispensable to anyone who prepares text for a living, including those who implement their own typesetting decisions with the aid of word-processing and page-layout software.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This manual furnishes a common technical vocabulary for specialists and nonspecialists alike. More than 900 entries provide up-to-date meanings for traditional terms like \u003ci\u003ekerning,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebleed,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ethumbnail\u003c\/i\u003e and definitions of new phrases like \u003ci\u003eglobal search and replace,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eH \u0026amp; J\u003c\/i\u003e (hyphenation and justification), and \u003ci\u003eidiot file\u003c\/i\u003e that have been developed to describe the role of computer technology in typesetting.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Eight appendixes offer additional guidance. The house style sheets of a major typesetter provide a sample checklist of items that affect the way in which words are composed into professional-quality type. Other appendixes cover families of type, the parts of a book, diagrams of the parts of a letter, coding and marking a manuscript in the precise language of typesetters, writing specifications for tables, proofreaders’ marks, and special characters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e No other reference book makes the vocabulary and practices of contemporary typesetting so accessible.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078031655152,"sku":"9780226183732","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226183732_p0.jpg?v=1763674594","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226183732","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}