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Use |upright=scaling factor to adjust the size of images; for example, |upright=1.3 displays an image 30% larger than the default, and |upright=0.60 displays it 40% smaller. Lead images should usually be no larger than |upright=1.35.
Terms in description lists (example: Glossary of the American trucking industry) Table headers and captions (but not image captions) A link to the page on which that link appears, called a self link; Manually added boldface markup in such cases will end up making excessive double-bold (900 weight) fonts.
8.5"×11" or A4 paper size. Courier or a similar monospaced serif font. 12-point (10 pitch) or 10-point (12 pitch) font size. Double-spaced lines of text (set in a word processor as 24-point or 20-point line spacing according to the chosen font size). 24 or 25 lines of text. 1, 1.25 or 1.5 inch margins. Paragraph indentation of 0.5 inches.
Margins also play an important role in digital word-processing and can be changed using the page setup menu. The default margins for Microsoft Word from version 2007 onward have been 1 inch (25.4 mm) all around; in Word 2003, the default top and bottom margins were 1 inch (25.4 mm), but 1.25 inches (31.7 mm) were given at the left and the right.
APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences , including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.
Note: This method is a hack which does not work with all Wikipedia skins. For example, users of the Classic skin will have the links at the top of the page covered up by the title. Alternate title headers are headers that cover up the default header at the top of a page. The default title header has the name of the page in big bold letters.
Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text. In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider).
The first page of the actual text of a book is the opening page, which often incorporates special design features, such as initials. Arabic numbering starts at this first page. If the text is introduced by a second half title or opens with a part title, the half title or part title counts as page one.