Mettage
The mettage (from French mettre = to set, set, lay), German break , is a term from the printing technology . The completed set articles and headlines are the Metteur to a page layout together. Mettage is also the name given to the room in which mettling takes place.
In many cases, especially in newspaper production, mettlers (including text mettlers) were employed as an independent professional group . The teaching profession for this was usually the typesetter .
In the age of desktop publishing (DTP), this work is done on the computer ( full page break , paragraph break , line break , column break ), either using special control characters ( break mark , conditional separator , protected space , protected hyphen, etc.), or by automatic line break and automatic hyphenation .
