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- WhiteFace
Am I right in thinking the number of words on a single line of text is called the "measure"?
Or is the "measure" the width of the text block?
- neverblink0
both typophile's typowiki: http://typophile.com/node/12038?…
and adobe typeglossary: http://www.adobe.com/uk/type/top…
do not contain "measure".
- WhiteFace0
hmmm, have I just made this up?
Has anyone else ever heard of this, or have any idea of what this might be called?
Thanks
- Ranger0
It's the number of characters in a line rather than the number of words I think. Going back to when a block was set for printing.
- Spookyhome0
I decided to keep quiet, but I have a load of old typesetting and printing terminology books here and none of them lists 'measure' in any glossary or index.
A comp stick is sometimes referred to as a measure, but not officially, only slangly.
- 'slangly' I like that word, I'm gonna start using itBaskerviIle
- kelpie0
'measure' I've heard a lot for the line length in characters of a block of text. don't know if its 'official' though
- monoboy0
I've heard the term 'measure' used to describe column widths loads of times.
- DaveO0
I always remember the measure being the width of the column – ultimately defined buy the width of the longest line of type....
- monoboy0
Might be in this...
http://www.webtypography.net/
- monospaced0
measure is used to measure sections when writing MUSIC
- bulletfactory0
the measure is the number of characters in single line of a column of text.
- Great news, this seems to be the general consensus, can anyone else back this up?WhiteFace
- neverblink0
http://webtypography.net/Rhythm_…
quote:
The measure is the number of characters in single line of a column of text.- so it's a web term, not a print term.Dennis_Moore
- no, its a typographic term applied to the web on that pagekelpie
- there is no "web term" bar 'width' which applies to thiskelpie
- too tech for me kelpie, I'll stick to me crayons...Dennis_Moore
- jaylarson0
neverblink's link at webtypography.net, is taken from Elements of Typographic Style. Measure is correct.
- WhiteFace0
Thanks for clearing this up, you guys wail!