10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICA EM»
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pica em in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pica em and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Graphic Communications Today
An em that measures 12 points, or a pica, on each side is referred to as a pica em
. Its sister, the en, is exactly half the width of an em. Therefore, a 36-point en
would be 36 points in height, but only half that measure — or 18 points — in
width.
William E. Ryan, Theodore E. Conover, 2004
2
Digital Magazine Design: With Case Studies
Default gutter widths are normally 4.233 mm, which is one pica-em. For further
reading on the use of typographic rules: The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th
Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). inch to 72.272 pts).
However, this ...
Paul Honeywill, Daniel Carpenter, 2003
3
Digital Design Using QuarkXPress 4
There are 12 pts to the pica-em, which is a fixed measurement regardless of type
size, and there are approximately 6 pica-ems to the inch. Changing the
Document Preferences of the horizontal measure from millimetres to picas will
allow ...
Paul Honeywill, Tony Lockhart, 1997
4
Typographia, Or, The Printers' Instructor: Including an ...
... or Brevier If less than Brevier TWENTY-FOURS and THIRTY-TWOS. If not less
than Small Pica If on Long Primer, Bourgeois, or Brevier If less than Brevier 586...
.CfiVograp1)ta. POCKET BOOKS. Octavo. Post or Crown, twenty-one Pica em*.
5
Production for Graphic Designers
A 12 pt em is called a pica em — not to be confused with a regular pica! Q 2.18 In
a typewriter face such as Courier, all the letters are of equal width— note how the
i is elongated to match the m. In more sophisticated typefaces, the width of ...
6
Ewes Use Yews 2nd Edition
/'paɪkɑ/ pica n 1: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em, pica em] 2:
magpies [syn: Pica, genus Pica] 3: eating of earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some
primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency [syn: geophagy, ...
7
Magazine Editing: In Print and Online
A pica EM is a 12-pt em. The pica em is used as a unit of typographical
measurement. picture by-line a BY-LINE incorporating a photograph of the author
. pingback a notification that another web page has linked to yours, typically sent
by email ...
John Morrish, Paul Bradshaw, 2012
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A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two ...
... fé ofFende ou pica em matérias de honra, ceremonias, brio, &c. it. feyto a rífca,
e exactamente, mas com nimiedade. PUNCTO, í. ceremonia, formalidade
cortezaã. PUNCTUAL, adj. pontual, exaéto com nimiedade. Puníiual, que confiíle
em ...
9
Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in ...
The square ofthis width, which vertically includes the depth ofthe descenders, is
called the set-em or em. Unlikethe pica-em, which is a constant measure of 12
points, the set-em changes as the size of the type changes.When type was still
set ...
... confused with the pica em, which is a fixed upt square. The traditional spacing
units within metal type are: em square: of the point size This line is inter-word
spaced using em squares. en: 1/2 the em square, or 2-to-em This line is inter-
word ...
