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  2. Column (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Column width is traditionally called measure by typesetters. For best legibility, typographic manuals suggest that columns should be wide enough to contain roughly 60 characters per line. [3] One formula suggests multiplying the point size of the font by 2 to reach how wide a column should be in picas [4] — in effect a column width of 24 ems.

  3. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    The classical Western column did not rigorously justify, but came as close as feasible when the skill of the penman and the character of the manuscript permitted. Historically, both scribal and typesetting traditions took advantage of abbreviations ( sigla ), ligatures , and swashes to help maintain the rhythm and colour of a justified line.

  4. Column (periodical) - Wikipedia

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    A newspaper column by Don Marquis. A column [1] is a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication, where a writer expresses their own opinion in few columns allotted to them by the newspaper organization. People who write columns are described as columnists.

  5. Column: What makes writing beautiful?

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    Beautiful writing has always moved me, like this line from “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury: "Now only the night moved in the souls of the two men bent by their lonely fire in the wilderness ...

  6. David Murdock Column: On 18 years of writing a weekly column

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    David Murdock on 18 years of writing this column and how he has changed subjects and styles through the years.

  7. Glossary of journalism - Wikipedia

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    A word or short phrase in larger type used to break up long columns of text, often a fragment of a strong quote from the paragraph which follows. [2] curtain raiser A story written before a predicted event, setting the scene for when it happens. Such stories are often used at the start of election campaigns, sporting competitions, etc. [2] cutline

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    There are five heading levels used in writing articles (the top-level one being reserved for the auto-displayed page name). [b] 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

  9. Lovina marks 20 years of writing the column that her mother ...

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    Lovina has been writing her column for 20 years. A rainy day makes doing the laundry more labor intensive, but worth it when all was dry by evening.

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