ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SWASH LETTER
Swash (n, in the sense: the decorative flourish of an ornamental letter) from aswash aslant.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWASH LETTER»
Discover the use of
swash letter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
swash letter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Swash Letter Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts
Add a touch of panache and style to a wide variety of graphic projects with the decorative letters in this unusual and practical collection.
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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
3 as adj n swash-work o swash letter. QUc swashbuckler : - noun 1 a daring and
flamboyant adventurer. 2 a type of highly stylized film, novel, etc that portrays
exciting scenes of adventure usually in a romanticized historical setting such as ...
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Chambers concise dictionary
as adj • swash-work • swash letter. [17c] swashbuckler > n 1 a daring and
flamboyant adventurer. 2 a highly stylized film, novel, etc that portrays exciting
scenes of adventure, usually in a romanticized historical setting and featuring
scenes of ...
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Dictionary of Librarianship: Including a Selection from the ...
... der Umwandlung von Anweisungen einer Programmiersprache in solche einer
anderen) [EDP] (DIN 44300I4E) I object language n ~sytem n [Comm] / target
system n ~thesaurus т [1пё] / target thesaurus n Zier|buchstabe т [Bk] I swash
letter ...
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German Technical Dictionary
... Sward-Härteprüfung f (coatings) Sward rocker hardness test <Plas> Sward-
Härteprüfung f (coatings) swarf <Prod Eng> Schleifspäne mpl, Schleifstaub m,
Späne mpl swash <Water Trans> Spritzsee f (sea)
swash letter <Print>
Zierbuchstabe ...
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The Education of a Typographer
A swash letter majuscule A in a wildly excessive script face will have elements
that could never be predicted from an algorithm responsible for the minimal
stroke forms of a three-stroke sans serif A. Why have I spent so long on this
example?
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Routledge German Dictionary of Information Technology
... radar tracking station; Zielvermittlung / telekom destination terminating
exchange; Zielvermittlungsstelle /telekom destination exchange; Zielzeichen nt
audio target blip Zier- pref print ornamental, swash; Zierbuchstabe m print swash
letter; ...
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Copy-editing: For Editors, Authors, Publishers
See also subscript. swash letter an ornamental italic character, usually a capital.
symposium (1) a conference; (z) a volume of papers presented at a confer- a
typesetting programming language designed to enable keying of complicated ...
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How to Build a Digital Library
For example, a swash letter, which is an ornamental letter—often a decorated
italic capital—used to open paragraphs, can be introduced automatically at the
beginning of words or lines. Text extraction It is useful to be able to extract plain
text ...
Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, 2009
82-3 lands: ...her,] "*,... ~: F. 87 sir?] pope; ~. F. 88 I] hanmer; It F. 100 suffers]
rowe; suffer F. 105 know — ] rowe; — . f. 5 rascally] d.w.; Rascally f. 67 plot.] rowe;
~? f. 78 C's] F2; C s f. U's] F uses a swash letter, which could mean V or U; V's F2;
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