Tabloid-sized page: a page
that measures 11" x
17" -- most often used in portrait orientation
for newspapers. Not to be confused with an 11" x
17" spread, which is made up of two letter-sized
pages.
Tags: for style
sheets, delimited
sets of characters embedded in the text or internally
coded. Tags apply to paragraphs (text terminated
with a hard return -- this includes titles and
headings) and indicate the function of paragraphs.
The actual type specification depends on the
style sheet that is associated with the tag.
TCP: Transport Control Protocol. See TCP/IP.
TCP/IP: The underlying protocols
and structure of the Internet. A method for carrying
packets of digital data in a specific format.
All Internet traffic must adhere to TCP/IP.
Template: in page design, a
file with an associated style
sheet and all standing
and serial elements in place on a master or base
page, used for publication following the same
design.
Text wrap: the spatial relationship
between blocks of text and graphics, or between
two blocks of text. A text wrap may be rectangular
(most commonly), irregular, or arbitrary.
Thumbnails: miniature pictures
sketched as first design ideas, like thinking
on paper (or on screen).
TIFF (Tagged Image File
Format): for digital
gray-scale halftones, a device-independent
graphics file format. TIFF files can be used
on IBM/compatible or Macintosh computers, and
may be output to PostScript printers.
Tiling (tile): printing a page
layout in sections with overlapping edges so
that the pieces can be pasted together.
Tombstoning: in multicolumn
publications, when two or more headings in the
same horizontal position on the page.
Track: in typography, to reduce
space uniformly between all characters in a line.
As opposed to kerning, which is the variable
reduction of space between specific characters.
Type alignment: the distribution
of white space in a line of type where the characters
at their normal set
width do not fill the entire
line length exactly. Type maybe aligned left,
right, centered, or right-justified.
Typeface: the set of characters
created by a type designer, including uppercase
and lowercase alphabetical characters, numbers,
punctuation, and special characters. A single
typeface contains many fonts, at different sizes
and styles.
Type families: a group of typefaces
of the same basic design but with different weights and proportions.
U
U&lc: abbreviation for upper- and lowercase.
Unit: in typography, divisions
of the em space, used for fine-tuning the letterspacing
of text type. Different typesetting systems and
desktop publishing software use different unit
divisions: 8, 16, 32, and 64 are common. One
unit is a thin space or a hair space.
URL: Universal Resource Locator.
A specialized syntax for addressing another server
or a document, in the form of protocol://host/directory-or-user/directory/.../filename
Examples: http://www.znet.com/znet/access/ ftp://ftp.znet.com/
telnet://rs.internic.net/ https://www.secure_site.com/
USENET: A term referring to
the vast network of news servers running software
compliant with NNTP. USENET is arranged in news
groups, of which there are tens of thousands,
each having any number of recent articles submitted
by users in a "bulletin board" fashion.
Only news reader software (and an Internet connection)
is required to read and send USENET news.
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