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A Style sheet is a form of separation of presentation and content in desktop publishing programs that store and apply formatting to text. Separation of presentation and content (or separate content from presentation) is common idiom, a design philosophy, and a methodology applied in various technical contexts, including information retrieval, template processing, web design, web development, and model-driven development. ...
Apple Pages being used with one of the free templates Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a personal computer and page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local economical multifunction peripheral output and distribution. ...
Style sheets are a common feature in most popular desktop publishing and word processing programs, including Adobe InDesign, PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Microsoft Word, though they may be referred to using slightly different terminology. Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) application produced by Adobe Systems. ...
PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program, introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the Apple Macintosh but soon after also for the PC. It relies on Adobe Systems PostScript page description language. ...
QuarkXPress is a page layout application for Mac OS X and Windows, produced by Quark, Inc. ...
Microsoft Word, or Microsoft Office Word, is Microsofts flagship word processing software. ...
Individual styles are created by the user and may include a wide variety of commands that dictate how a selected portion of text is formatted:
In most programs with style sheets, there is a window or menu listing the style sheets the user has associated with the document. For example, a newspaper may have a style sheet for its story text called "Body copy" that sets the type at 10 point Nimrod with 11 point leading and justified alignment. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
A font can mean: A member of a typeface family; or digital font - file format that encapsulates a typeface family in a database. ...
Bold Bold, see Bold (disambiguation). ...
Italic can refer to: Italic languages Italic scripts Italic means Of or from Italy; the usage is most commonly restricted to talking about the people and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire. ...
An underline is one or more horizontal lines immediately below a portion of text. ...
In typesetting, justification is the setting of text or images within a column or measure to align along both the left and right margin. ...
A tabstop on a typewriter is a location where the carriage movement is halted by mechanical gears. ...
An indentation can mean two things: To make notches in something or form deep recesses in a coastline for instance. ...
In typography, leading (IPA , rhymes with heading) refers to the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type. ...
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In typography, tracking is the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all glyphs (letters) in a block of text. ...
Color is an important part of the visual arts. ...
This article is about the term superscript as used in typography. ...
A subscript is a number, figure, or indicator that appears below the normal line of type, typically used in a formula, mathematical expression, or description of a chemical compound. ...
In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between majuscule (capital or upper-case) and minuscule (lower-case) letters. ...
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Most programs allow users to name their own styles. Usually easy-to-remember names are used that describe what the style is used for. Common names might include "headline," "subhead" and "byline."
To apply a style to a portion of text, most programs allow users to select the text with their mouse and then click on the desired style in the style sheet window. The program than applies the stored formatting instantly.
Style sheets help publications maintain consistency, so common elements such as story text, headlines and bylines always appear the same. Style sheets also help save time allowing a design to click once rather than having to apply each element one at a time and risking using an incorrect value. A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it. ...
The byline on a newspaper or magazine article gives the name, and often the position, of the writer of the article. ...
Finally, style sheets are also useful if a publication decides to make changes to a design - say, make the story text slightly smaller. A user with proper administrative access can make the change to the master style sheet and then "send" the revised style sheets to all users and the change is automatically refelected.
Some programs split style sheets into two classes: Paragraph and character.
Paragraph style sheets are applied to an entire paragraph while character styles are applied to only a select number of characters. Character styles are useful when a user needs to format only a small portion of a paragraph. For example, a newspaper may publish lists of current movies by starting with the name of movie in a bold, sans serif typeface. Then, without starting a new paragraph, the review starts in the standard story text format. In the case, the design could highlight the movie title and select the appropriate character style to apply the formatting only to the title. The rest of the paragraph can then be styled independently. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
More advanced layout programs allow users to format more complex paragraphs with a single paragraph style. Using our movie review example above, say the newspaper always places a colon after the movie title and runs 10 short movie reviews as one large story. In this case, the style could be programmed to apply the bold, sans serif typeface at the start of a new paragraph until it encounters a colon. After the colon, the style switches to the standard story text style. Therefore, the designer could highlight the entire collection and apply only one style that will automatically format the entire story without having to go through and apply separate character styles to each of the 10 reviews.
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