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This divides the task of page layout between artists and engineers, or tasks the artist/engineer to do both. More complex projects may require two separate designs: page layout design as the front-end, and function coding as the back-end. In this case, the front-end may be designed using an alternative page layout technology such as image ...
Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
The word "page" comes from the Latin term pagina, which means, "a written page, leaf, sheet", [2] which in turn comes from an earlier meaning "to create a row of vines that form a rectangle". [3] The Latin word pagina derives from the verb pangere , which means to stake out boundaries when planting vineyards.
A diagram displaying equal margins of width 25mm on an A4 page. In typography, a margin is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. [1] The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends. When a page is justified the text is spread out to be flush with
When it is useful to sub-divide these sections (for example, to separate a list of magazine articles from a list of books), this should be done using level 3 headings (===Books===) instead of definition list headings (;Books), as explained in the accessibility guidelines.
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For books, the article name should be the short title of the book, for example the book The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating has the article name The 100-Mile Diet. If the article name is already taken, there are two options: either use the long title (such as Power: A New Social Analysis) or the disambiguation "book" (such as Outliers).
The first printed books, or incunabula, did not have title pages: the text simply begins on the first page, and the book is often identified by the initial words—the incipit—of the text proper. Other older books may have bibliographic information on the colophon at the end of the book. [2]