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Slug (typesetting)

In typesetting, a slug is any of several kinds of piece of lead or other type metal. One kind of slug is a piece of spacing material used to space paragraphs. In the era of commercial typesetting in metal type, they were usually manufactured in strips of 6-point lead. Another kind of slug is a single sort, bearing a single letter or any other symbol.…

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Slug (typesetting)

Nodes15
Edges14
Triples5
Avg. degree1.87
Density0.133333
Components1

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slug piece typesetting lead type slugs also used metal kind single bearing line typeset text document printed sort spacing usually

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Adobe InDesigninstance ofwhere a single piece of lead has been cast bearing a line of text.In modern typesetting programs0.80text
slugs hold printing informationinstance ofwhere a single piece of lead has been cast bearing a line of text.In modern typesetting programs0.80text
customized color bar informationinstance ofwhere a single piece of lead has been cast bearing a line of text.In modern typesetting programs0.80text
or display other instructionsinstance ofwhere a single piece of lead has been cast bearing a line of text.In modern typesetting programs0.80text
descriptions for other information in the documentinstance ofwhere a single piece of lead has been cast bearing a line of text.In modern typesetting programs0.80text

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