typography course, Eötvös Loránd University

Text has to be moulded in a given text area: a line of text is rarely of arbitrary width (at least this is not convenient, although the text area can be arbitrarily high in the case of electronic texts, which can be scrolled down practically infinitely). This means that text has to be broken into lines and often lines also have to be broken into pages. There are various tricks to control this process, some of them are shown in this lecture. At the end “floating” elements (blockquotes, lists, displays, tables, charts, maps, drawings, images) will be very briefly introduced.

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