单词 | to end even |
释义 | > as lemmasto end even d. Typography. Of the lines of a piece of text: of equal length. Of text: composed of lines of equal length. Chiefly in various phrases used with reference to adjusting the spacing of the last few lines of a piece of copy so that the last matches its predecessors in length, as to make even lines (also to make even), to end even. Now rare. ΚΠ 1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia ii. i. 413 If it [sc. the matter to be abstracted] be more considerable, he may be obliged to over-run many lines before he can..make even. 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 188 The page must be had in view and kept right.., but never to make even lines too suddenly so as to cause the spacing to be unsightly. 1860 G. Ruse & C. Straker Printing & its Accessories i. § 2. 129 The compositors have each to ‘begin even’ and ‘end even’. 1901 Brit. Printer Sept. 236/2 It will be easy to so space the following lines to make even. 1912 A. A. Stewart Printer's Dict. Techn. Terms 64 End Even, to finish copy even at the end of a line of type, without blank, or regard to paragraph. A practice formerly common in newspaper offices. 1940 Print Sept. 103/1 Mr. Norman W. Forgue, designer of the present volume, uses condensed type on the wrapper—and letter-spaces it to make even lines, to boot. 1983 A. Campbell Graphic Designer's Handbk. ix. 156/2 End even, instruction to a typesetter to end a section of copy with a full line. < as lemmas |
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