Verso: in a double-sided document,
the page that appears on the left side of the spread;
an odd-numbered page.
Vector graphic: Vector graphics
are drawn in paths. This allows the designer
to resize images freely without getting pixilated
edges as is the case with bitmapped images. The
vector format is generally used for in printing
while the bitmap format is used for onscreen
display.
W
Weight: denotes the thickness
of a letter stroke, light, extra-light, "regular," medium,
demi-bold, bold, extra bold and ultra bold.
White space: in designing
publication, the areas where there is no text
or graphics -- essentially, the negative space
of the page design.
Widow: in a page layout,
short last lines of paragraphs -- usually unacceptable
when separated from the rest of the paragraph
by a column break, and always unacceptable
when separated by a page break.
Word wrap: in a word processor
or text editor, the automatic dropping of characters
to the next line when the right margin is reached.
World Wide Web: An expression
for all Internet protocols accessible via a
web browser, HTTP being the most common. Other
services, such as FTP, gopher and telnet can
be accessed with a web browser capable of exchanging
commands of the particular protocol with the
server and displaying the results to screen.
The web, then, is an attempt to bring the most
popular Internet protocols under one interface,
as opposed to running individual FTP and gopher
clients, for instance. Some web clients include
complete email and news interfaces.
WWW: Acronym for World Wide Web.
WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get):
an interactive mode of computer processing, in
which there is a screen representation of the
printed output. WYSIWYG is never entirely accurate,
because of the difference in resolution between
display screens and printers.
X
x-height: the height of the
lowercase "s." Sometimes
referred to as "body height." More
generally, the height of the lowercase letters.
Y
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Z
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