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  2. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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    Other U.S. style guides that do not address sentence spacing include, Scientific Style And Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, And Publishers, [62] the AMA Manual of Style, [63] the Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage (2002), [64] the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, [65] REA's Handbook of English ...

  3. History of sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    French spacing is tight spacing with equal word spacing throughout a line, i.e., no extra space after a period, colon, etc. The purpose is not only to create a tighter looking, evenly colored page, but more important, to avoid rivers. In some ad shops, French spacing is understood to mean optically equal word spacing. As to the "French" part of ...

  4. Letter spacing - Wikipedia

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    Letter spacing, character spacing or tracking is an optically consistent typographical adjustment to the space between letters to change the visual density of a line or block of text. Letter spacing is distinct from kerning , which adjusts the spacing of particular pairs of adjacent characters such as "7."

  5. Intercolumniation - Wikipedia

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    In architecture, intercolumniation is the proportional spacing between columns in a colonnade, often expressed as a multiple of the column diameter as measured at the bottom of the shaft. [1] In Classical , Renaissance , and Baroque architecture , intercolumniation was determined by a system described by the first-century BC Roman architect ...

  6. Spaced repetition - Wikipedia

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    The first form is absolute spacing. Absolute spacing is the measurement of all the trials within the learning and testing periods. An example of this would be that participants would study for a total of thirty trial periods, but the spacing of these trials can either be expanding or uniform. The second form is called relative spacing.

  7. Ruled paper - Wikipedia

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    It has 1 ⁄ 2 in (12.7 mm) spacing between ruling lines, with a single margin drawn down the center of the page. Wide ruled (or legal ruled) paper has 11 ⁄ 32 in (8.7 mm) spacing between horizontal lines, with a vertical margin drawn about 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (32 mm) from the left-hand edge of the page. It is commonly used by American ...

  8. Technical lettering - Wikipedia

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    Location of Central Lines – The nominal size (h) and the spacing between characters (a) shall be taken as the basis for defining the central line. Range of Nominal Sizes – The nominal size is typically one of the sequence 2.5 mm, 3.5 mm, 5 mm, 7 mm, 10 mm, 14 mm, 20 mm. Successive members of this sequence are approximately in a ratio of the ...

  9. Dual in-line package - Wikipedia

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    The former Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries used similar packages, but with a metric pin-to-pin spacing of 2.5 mm rather than 0.1 inches (2.54 mm). The number of leads is always even. For 0.3 inch spacing, typical lead counts are 8, 14, 16, and 20; less common are 4, 6, 18, 24, and 28 lead counts.