Thursday, January 10, 2013

Vocab words- letter W



Width Table- Collections of information about how much horizontal room each character in a font should occupy, often accompanied by information about special kerning pairs or other exception






Windows- An area of a computer screen in which a single document is displayed.
 
 
Woodtype- Hand-set types cut from wood by a mechanical router. Formerly used for large display sizes that were not practical for metal casting, woodtype has been virtually eliminated by display photographic typesetting. 
 
Word-processing program-
A computer application used to type in text, then edit, correct, move, or remove it.
Wordspacing- The spatial interval between words. In setting justified body type, space is added between words to extend each line to achieve flush left and right edges. See Interwordspacing. 
 
World Wide Web-
A global graphic media system used to exchange data between computer users.
WORM- Acronym for “Write Once Read Many,” usually applied to storage media such as CD-ROMs, which can only be written once but read many times.
WYSIWYG- Abbreviation for “what you see is what you get”;pronounced Wizzywig. This means the image on the screen is identical to the image that will be produced as final output.
 
 







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