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Quad (typography)

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28: 660: 335: 322: 309: 296: 227:, squared; a two em quadrat is twice the thickness of its depth; a three em three times; and a four em four times, as their names specify. Four ems are the largest quadrats that are cast. They are used to fill out short lines; to form white lines; and to justify letters, figures, &c., in any part of a line or page. 218:
QUADRATS. Pieces of type metal, of the depth of the body of the respective sizes to which they are cast, and lower than types, so as to leave a blank space on the paper, when printed, where they are placed: an en quadrat is half as thick as its depth; an em quadrat is equal in thickness and depth,
194:, in printing, a piece of metal cast like the letters, to fill up the void spaces between words, etc. There are quadrats of different sizes, as m-quadrats, n-quadrats, etc., which are, respectively, of the dimensions of these letters. 375: 117:
character set as U+2000 EN QUAD and U+2001 EM QUAD, which are also defined to be canonically equivalent to U+2002 EN SPACE and U+2003 EM SPACE respectively.
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thick; that is, one quarter so thick as the Body is high; though we shall call these Spaces, Thick Spaces.
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lower than the letters, used in spacing between words and filling out blank lines (commonly
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Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A dictionary of arts and sciences: compiled upon a new plan
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thick, which is just so thick as the Body is high: Some are n thick; that is to say, n
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Mechanick exercises: Or, the Doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the art of printing
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And as there is three Heighths or Sizes to be considered in Letters Cut to the same
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for an em quad, and has other related whitespace escape sequences.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
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are to be Forged: For some are m thick; by m thick is meant m
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was later commonly used for a third of an m quadrat.
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Retrieved 423: 404: 398: 370: 362: 359:middle space 358: 353: 328: 315: 302: 289: 285: 275: 274:, kwod′rat, 271: 261: 255: 249: 245: 244: 238: 232: 231:In 1903, in 230: 224: 220: 217: 211: 207: 206:, the terms 203: 198:In 1841, in 197: 190: 182: 180: 174: 168: 164: 160: 156: 150: 144: 140: 137:Joseph Moxon 135:In 1683, in 134: 123:markup uses 119: 108: 101: 97: 96:(originally 93: 87: 83: 82:(originally 79: 66: 65:(originally 62: 56: 47: 478:unicode.org 363:thick space 280:a piece of 237:, the term 187:, it says: 76:typesetting 73:letterpress 40:typesetting 37:letterpress 731:Whitespace 721:Typography 715:Categories 668:typography 594:. p.  543:2022-10-28 483:2021-06-05 459:2013-09-18 435:2013-09-18 414:1871516234 390:References 376:Cyclopædia 282:type-metal 212:en quadrat 59:typography 225:quadratus 145:n quadrat 98:n quadrat 84:m quadrat 736:Printing 640:See also 588:(1841). 511:(1683). 329:three-em 248:, kwod, 726:Unicode 272:Quadrat 262:quadrat 192:Quadrat 167:thick, 165:Quadrat 161:Quadrat 157:Punches 131:History 115:Unicode 113:of the 94:en quad 80:em quad 68:quadrat 18:En quad 411:  327:, and 316:two-em 257:print. 666:This 454:(PDF) 345:Notes 175:Space 125:\quad 121:LaTeX 33:sorts 672:stub 409:ISBN 286:Quad 266:v.t. 246:Quad 239:quad 210:and 170:viz. 153:Body 143:and 63:quad 61:, a 51:name 44:sort 629:753 625:752 600:hdl 596:670 568:hdl 564:520 380:926 221:the 202:'s 57:In 35:in 717:: 598:. 566:. 536:. 519:99 476:. 340:. 314:, 303:em 301:, 290:en 277:n. 264:.— 251:n. 208:em 103:en 89:em 703:e 696:t 689:v 678:. 631:. 627:– 606:. 602:: 574:. 570:: 546:. 521:. 486:. 462:. 438:. 417:. 382:. 338:) 332:( 325:) 319:( 312:) 306:( 299:) 293:( 254:( 141:m 53:. 20:)

Index

En quad

sorts
letterpress
typesetting
sort
whitespace character
typography
quadrat
letterpress
typesetting
em
en
General Punctuation code block
Unicode
LaTeX
Joseph Moxon
Body
Encyclopædia Britannica
William Savage
Chambers Dictionary
type-metal




Cyclopædia
926
ISBN
1871516234

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