Daily Dose of DTP: 8. Compose Yourself! It's Only Words.

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Daily Dose of DTP 8. Compose Yourself! It's Only Words. From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing Although there are exceptions, most desktop publishing projects consist primarily of text. While page layout covers the overall arrangement of text and/or graphics on the page, text composition is concerned with how the letters, words, and paragraphs of text look on the page. The majority of the time spent on page layout is usually devoted to text composition tasks. Class Notes: This is not simply a word-a-day course. The lessons follow a specific order in roughly the following groupings: General concepts > Things you need > Font specifics > Image specifics > Prepress & Printing > Rules & Tutorials (bold indicates the stage in which this lesson falls) Today's Definition Text Composition This little letter goes here... That big word goes over there... Today's Trivia Set Down That Type Before desktop publishing, text composition or typesetting was a specialized skill that evolved over time. Early typesetters were responsible for physically assembling the lines of metal type from individual characters. Later innovations involved typewriter-like machines, film, and magnetic tape so that the typesetter was no longer physically handling the type and many typesetting tasks became computerized. Today, we use our computers and page layout software to manipulate digital fonts and do in minutes what once took typesetters hours, even days to accomplish. This email is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Daily Dose of DTP' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement