Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

The industry concerned with the preparation and distribution of printed material to the general public.

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filler

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Decorative or textual material of secondary importance used to fill a space, close a gap, or end a section. See squib, bite, snippet, paragraph, puffery, mannerism.

over the transom

Printing & publishing; Publishing

See slush pile, manuscript.

stroke

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The movement of a pen, pencil, brush, and similar writing instruments, or the resultant mark made by such a movement; see serif, stem, type, typography, alphabet. Also, a ...

novelization

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To put into the form of a novel, as by adapting a play or film.

hot-key

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A command key sequence, so called due to always being ready and waiting ("warmed-up") for activation. Hot-key combinations usually consist of control keys (ie: CTRL, ALT, Shift) ...

caret

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A mark (^) made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted; derived from "there is lacking / wanting". See notation, proofreader's marks.

slash

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A short oblique stroke used as a divider or separator, being a diagonal, virgule, solidus; see punctuation. Also, a path (qv) delimiter for filenames and internet addresses (qqv); ...