Line shape
A line form is a form of writing in which the line break of the paragraph text is not done automatically, but always manually according to content and design aspects. Above all, poems and lyrics are put in line form.
Difference to body text
In the body text -Schriftsatz "flow" of the amount of text from a filled row to the next, the line break results from the available area width and not from the content-design point; If necessary, a word separation occurs at the end of the line. In line form, however, z. B. lines of poetry, song verses, headlines or headings that are not set to the maximum width, but are manually (not automatically) wrapped beforehand:
- Example of a particularly long heading that
- lig must be ordered.
- Example of a particularly long heading, <man. Upheaval>
- which must be arranged in several lines.
literature
- Stephan Füssel, Helmut Hiller: Dictionary of the book . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-465-03495-3 .
- Erhardt D. Stiebner, Walter Leonhard: Handbuch der Schrift , Bruckmann, Munich 1977.
- Albert Ernst: Interaction: text content and typographical design , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
Web links
- Books wiki: book production glossary (under "running text": "line form"), ed. 2006-1216-2017, checked 2012-0228-1849.
Footnotes
- ↑ See Erhardt D. Stiebner, Walter Leonhard: Handbuch der Schrift , Bruckmann, Munich 1977, p. 131.
- ↑ See Wilhelm Duwe: Expressions of German Poetry from Naturalism to the Present , Verlag E. Schmidt, Berlin 1965, pp. 215, 220, 225.
- ↑ Cf. Werner-Joachim Düring: Erlkönig-Vertonungen , Verlag G. Bosse, Regensburg 1972, p. 83 ff.