| 单词 | height to paper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheight to paper c. Of type: the distance from the foot to the face, called by printers height to paper. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > height of type height1683 type height1905 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 156 If he finds that the edge of the Liner just touch..as well all the parts of his Proof-Letters as they do upon his old Letters, He concludes his Matrice is Sunk to a true Height against Paper. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 243 They [sc. imperfections] are seldom exact to the prior sorts, but differ from them, sometimes in thickness, height to paper, or depth of Body. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 698/2 The height of type varies slightly with different founders, the mean being 29/ 32 in. 1892 A. Oldfield Pract. Man. Typogr. xxii. 164 Each letter should be of exactly the same height to paper; the height of type being 11-12ths of an inch. 1900 H. Hart Cent. Typogr. 23 Five packets of types of the same face, but cast on a Pica body and Dutch ‘height-to-paper’, were found at the Oxford Press in 1898. < as lemmas |
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