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American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking: Containing a History of These Arts in Europe and America, with Definitions of Technical Terms and Biographical Sketches
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The Essential Baker: The Comprehensive Guide to Baking with Chocolate, Fruit, Nuts, Spices, and Other Ingredients
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may refer to several separate units, depending on the item being measured.
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was an inexact length based on the size of the various
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26 Lead Soldiers: Printing Types, Methods, Machines
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(1984), "Glossary", 393:, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 873: 597: 463: 449: 441: 239: 1419:Punctuation and other typographic symbols 378:The Ladder of Journalism: How to Climb It 328:, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1916 205: 198: 282: 224: 7: 361:Butter Baking: A Blog of Baked Goods 251: 93:was notionally equal to 10 sticks. 375:Campbell-Copeland, Thomas (1893), 340:, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 25: 408:Pasko, Wesley Washington (1894), 387:Jackson, Hartley Everett (1937), 148:may also be understood as ½  1432: 1431: 1: 1388:History of Western typography 1235:traditional point-size names 183:Traditional point-size names 488:Canons of page construction 323:Oxford English Dictionary, 1489: 1427: 645:Subscript and superscript 1403:Vox-ATypI classification 533:Intentionally blank page 434:2027/uiug.30112074941706 264:Campbell-Copeland (1893) 936: 334:Bloom, Carole (2007), 108: 69:to assemble pieces of 106: 77:or 100–150 words. In 1273:Typographic features 357:"Baking Conversions" 302:Butter Baking (2015) 1398:Technical lettering 1297:Typography in other 1038:Hanging punctuation 27:Unit of measurement 1361:Handwriting script 1288:Desktop publishing 1258:Character encoding 1251:Digital typography 765:Horizontal aspects 718:Visual distinction 576:Widows and orphans 426:Journalist 3&2 178:US customary units 109: 1445: 1444: 1192:Typographic units 1110:For position only 1009: 1008: 861: 860: 240:Williamson (1984) 124:is taken to be 4 107:A stick of butter 16:(Redirected from 1480: 1435: 1434: 1412:Related template 1344:Related articles 1145:Phototypesetting 999:reverse-contrast 984:Display typeface 941: 918:Blackletter type 874: 811:Vertical aspects 792:Sentence spacing 602:Typeface anatomy 598: 465: 458: 451: 442: 436: 419: 403: 382: 370: 369: 367: 355:Natasha (2015), 350: 329: 305: 299: 290: 280: 271: 261: 255: 249: 243: 242:, p. xliii. 237: 228: 222: 213: 203: 156:(about 118  142:American cooking 128:(about 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Index

Stickful
typography
composing sticks
newspaper
editors
moveable type
column inches
France
Spain
Italy
column

American cooking
butter
ounces
g
American cooking
butter
cup
tablespoons
mL
English
imperial
US customary units
Traditional point-size names
Jackson 1937
p. 70


Pasko (1894)

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