Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-28

type inch high You specify 72pont If you want your
reading matter of letters 16 of inch high you would
indicate 2pont There type as small as 5-pont
Smaller, therefore, than fourteenth of an inch high
point, then, is technical term to designate the
height of type The width of unit of type naturally
varies The letter of course narrower than the letter
w. Luckily the letter is only just as wide as it is
high Out of this happenstanee grows the fact that the
unit OF width measurement is called an The EN-,
therefore, of any certain height point of type would
be the width of letter M in that particular size. In
other words the would be wide in number of points
as that particular. type happened to be high.
So it follows that the en- in connection with the -
point type, would bet12 points wide Therefore since
this the unit of measurement 16 Of an inch there
would be six to each inch of width Therefore col
two inches wide would comprise II Likewise the
EN- in style of type 36 points high would be &c points
1a-inch wide-and so on.
Better make this 12-em column Sometimes Won
will hear the printer say that without regard to the
of type which is to be used. Whether it is to be II
points high, Is points, if still other height
But the en- when used independently in this way refers
to a plea en- which is always 12pont type This
hen is the usual used in designating column widths
and though do not know what the height of type
be, understand 12-em wodth to mean two
inches wide whenever such specification is made without
regard to size of type
Line is another arbitrary point of measurement
in publication phraseology Most space sold basis
of this unit This is technically agate line, which is
theoretically 5s points high In other words there
IA of these lines to nch therefore newspaper for
instance where the space is quoted at Zoe ine 81 40
would be the price for each inch of height in given
column.
But if such lines of type set 'wel leaded' they
would occupy than inch for each IA lines be-
loaded that there would be little lead part
lions separating each line from the above it. If
say Set with 2pont lead, " you would mean that be-
tween each line you would want strip of lead PA
II of inch high If you do not want the type thus
spread out in length then it would be set sod which
would that the bottom of type would rest right
top of the type in the line below, with space be-
tween the two
In getting type set You have the choice of three main
methods Either you select hand composition limo
type monotype The manual method permits of the
greatest possible variety in the construction of the type
composition 1t is the flexible way of setting display
matter reading matter
Reading matter, however, be set more economic
ally by machine. Most newspapers in the ordinary
ming type of the news column linotype BY this
method each line of type solid piece of lead wide
the width of the column Naturally, then, If typo
graphical is made, the entire line must be thrown
away and new one least" in its place By the mono
type machine each individual letter type which
has been particularly cast for that purpose This machine
roll of paper similar to that used for automatic
piano players Into this paper special maehine-sim
lar to typewrter-has pricked series of little holes
These holes each result in the individual manufacture of
that particular type whether it be letter, punctuation
mark or figure Virtually, them the monotype makes
maticaly sets up the type as it is needed.