Square (typography)

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Highlighted in gray: square, half square and quarter square
Structure of a hot type letter . In the case of a square, c = d , the area corresponds to d².
Details Dimensions
1. Hallmark
second typeface
3. meat
4. Cone
5. underarm area
6. cone
7. Signature
8. Gießrille		 a head
b shoulder height
a + b font height
c thickness
d cone thickness / cone height

The square (pronunciation: [f]) ​​is a typographical unit of measurement from the time of hot type with movable letters , which is still used in modern typesetting on the computer.

The name Geviert corresponds to the old German name for the square and describes the non-printing area with the same width ( thickness ) and height in the paper plane, i.e. the cone thickness of the font . Accordingly, the vertical defines the minimum line spacing of a font (in the compress sentence) and the horizontal - in various subdivisions up to a 24th - defines the distance between words and punctuation marks, and at the same time the length of the square .

Half square is half of this width, used for example with half square . The usual word spacing (the space ) is about a quarter of an square . The half square also corresponds to the thickness of table numbers .

The eighth square is used to lock .

The terms Em for "square" and En for "half square" used in English should only be understood as an approximation, because the width of the letters M and N is not decisive for the definition of square (i.e. Em ) and half square (i.e. En ) . In addition, due to the typographical flesh (in Figure  3 ) , the em-quarter in classic type is slightly larger than the largest letter.

Typographic sign HTML entity XML / XHTML decimal XML / XHTML hexadecimal Unicode TeX / LaTeX
Double square \qquad
Quartered       U + 2003 \quad
Half square       U + 2002 \enskip or. \enspace
Third of a quarter       U + 2004 \hskip .33333em\relax
Quarter square       U + 2005 \hskip .25em\relax
Fifth quarter       U + 2009 \hskip .2em\relax
Sixth of a quarter     U + 2006 \thinspace
Eighth square \hskip .125em\relax
Em dash  (-) — — — U + 2014 --- or. \textemdash
Three quarters \textthreequartersemdash
Two-thirds quadrant \texttwelveudash
Semicolon  (-) – – – U + 2013 -- or. \textendash
Quarter of a quarter (divis)  (-)
 ‐ ‐ U + 2010
Hyphen-minus  (-) - - U + 002D -
Minus sign (-) − − − U + 2212 \minus or. $-$

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c In LaTeX can be used instead of \hskipalternatively \hspace.
  2. ↑ a b Note that the HTML entity  does not \thinspacecorrespond to the LaTeX command .
  3. ↑ a b After loading the package textcompin the preamble.