Layout

Question 1

(hand-press printing with cold-metal type) compose

Answer 1

set letters and interword spaces

Question 1

(hand-press printing with cold-metal type) impose

Answer 1

put pages of type on the press

Question 2

autograph

Answer 2

of manuscripts, in the author’s (as distinct from a scribal) hand

Question 3

blank

Answer 3

of physical lines, empty of type ; of type, uninked.

Question 4

catchword

Answer 4

the first word or syllable of a page printed below the last word of
the previous page, as a courtesy to readers(-aloud).

Question 5

composition

Answer 5

in hand-press printing the process of assembling the individual
pieces of type, including inter-word spaces, in the correct order.

Question 6

display

Answer 6

the presentation or emphasis of elements by layout.

Question 7

eisthesis

Answer 7

the indentation of a line or lines by one or more spaces from the left
margin.

Question 8

epigraph

Answer 8

a short motto or quotation prefixed to a text.

Question 9

ekthesis

Answer 9

the setting of a line or lines hard to the left margin.

Question 10

face

Answer 10

of a type, a particular appearance of the letters and numbers, as roman or
italic ; thus any given fount of type will have many faces.

Question 11

fair copy

Answer 11

a carefully copied text without blots or corrections etc.

Question 12

foul papers

Answer 12

an author’s drafts with revisions etc., the precursor of fair copy.

Question 13

fount

Answer 13

(in the USA, ‘font’) of type, a particular design of the letters and numbers ; each fount will comprise designs for each character in a number of faces.

Question 14

imposition

Answer 14

in hand-press printing the process of arranging the composed type
on the bed of the press ; decisions about leading, ornaments, running-heads, etc.
are involved, and two or more pages will have to be imposed together in any
book or pamphlet format.

Question 15

indentation

Answer 15

the setting of a line or lines in from the left margin by one or
more spaces.

Question 16

justified

Answer 16

of text and margins, aligned straight up and down

Question 17

leading

Answer 17

the amount of white space left between lines, stanzas, or other units of
form, and in the margins.

Question 18

leaf

Answer 18

a single sheet of paper ; one recto, one verso

Question 19

lineation

Answer 19

the organisation of a poem into lines

Question 20

metal page

Answer 20

my coinage for the archetype, at a given time or in general, of
pages printed by metal type ; usually with reference to the typographical and/or
design limits of such pages.

Question 21

mise-en-page

Answer 21

the actual layout of a given poem (or prose text) on a given
page.

Question 22

ragged

Answer 22

of text and margins, not justified.

Question 23

recto

Answer 23

the front of any leaf ; in books, each right-hand page

Question 24

set, setting

Answer 24

arranging type in order to print ; a portion of type so ordered.

Question 25

shape-poem

Answer 25

one whose text is organised on the page to depict a shape, or otherwise to involve pictorial as well as verbal representation ; also known as
technopaignia, carmina figurate, and concrete poems.

Question 26

turn-down, -up ( also turn-over, turned line)

Answer 26

in verse-lines that exceed the measure, that part which is set on the physical line below or above.

Question 27

verse

Answer 27

the back of any leaf ; in books, each left-hand page.

Question 28

litterae notabiliores

Answer 28

more noticeable letters - often larger minuscule forms rather than distinct majuscule forms

Question 29

majuscule forms

Answer 29

handwritten ‘upper-case’

Question 30

minuscule forms

Answer 30

handwritten ‘lower-case’