Chapter IV: Preface (4)

TURN FOR SORTS--When the types in a case run short and they will
be supplied later, the compositor puts in another type of the
same thickness, turned bottom up, the proper letter to be
inserted before printing or moulding. It is the rule, when a
letter has been taken from a live page to be used immediately
in another place, that a turned letter should be put in place
of the one taken out to show the absence of the proper letter
when an impression is taken.

TURNED COMMAS--Inverted commas (") at the beginning of a
quotation.

TWO-LINE LETTER--A capital letter of the depth of two lines of
text used as an initial at the beginning of a subject.

TYPE MEASURE--A strip of strong card, wood, or steel having its
edges marked with scales indicating ems of type sizes; for
measuring composed matter; usually only sizes up to pica or
12-point are given.

TYPOGRAPHY--The art and process of printing from movable types.
It includes printing from engraved relief blocks which can
be made up and printed with composed types. Also called
letterpress printing.

UNDERSCORE--To draw or print a line under a word or sentence.

UNIT--An accepted standard of measurement; thus the point is the
unit for type sizes, the pica (12-point) is the unit for widths
of pages, lengths of leads, rules, furniture, etc.

UPPER CASE--The capital case.

WHITE OUT--To blank out a page or other space with quads or
furniture.

WIDE MEASURE--Lines of type that are longer than normal in
relation to the size of type used; a length that would be
normal for 12-point would be wide for 6-point, Generally, lines
averaging over twelve words or fifty letters would be termed
wide measure.

WRONG-FONT--A letter or character in the line from another kind
of type, due to mixing of fonts. Usually written in proof _wf_.

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