Publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available to the general public.

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Key title

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The commonly recognised title of a periodical, often condensed or rid of initialisms, as used for ISSN registration. See heading, title, half-title page, spine.

The subhead, lead-in, summary/abstract, and any other pretext copy (including byline) that is placed at the beginning or top of a story, additional to the heading or headline; compare strap, kicker, ...

Standing head

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A headline that remains the same from one issue of a periodical to another. See constant, heading.

Mortise

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A recess, hole, notch, or cut-out made in a layout area to receive another element, such as text into an illustration, one image into another image, or a box into body copy. See inset, box, call-out, ...

Headword

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A word or phrase appearing as the heading of a chapter, section, or reference entry, as used in codex volumes for place location before pagination; also known as "guide word" or catchword. Also, a ...

Corrugated board

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Board made by sandwiching fluted kraft paper between sheets of paper or cardboard, as used for making boxes. See paper.

Back matter

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Printed ancillary material, positioned at the back of a book, after the body copy, including addendum, appendix, epilogue, envoy, coda, afterword, eulogy, colophon, bibliography, endnote, glossary, ...