Bring in

Bringing in (the term negative lockout was also common) is a technical term from the brief and describes the process of shortening text lines to a specified width by reducing the spacing between words.

In contrast to the more common expelling , bringing it in may make it more difficult to read because the spacing between words is less noticeable, but it sometimes helps to avoid sentence errors such as whore child and cobbler boy. In modern word processing, it is hardly common any more. In hand typesetting , the word spacing had to be changed according to a set of rules that took into account the preceding punctuation marks, the shape of the letters or the length of the words when selecting the correct exclusion .

literature

• Helmut Hiller, Stephan Füssel: Dictionary of the book . 7th edition. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt 2006. ISBN 3-465-03495-3 .
• Friedrich Bauer: The starting point for apprentice typesetter. 7th edition. Frankfurt am Main, 1927, p. 48 ff.