Bookwork composition describes the typesetting for print works such as newspapers, but mainly for books.

The fonts used for bookwork composition are also called bookwork fonts.

In advertising and smaller bookworks, it is not called bookwork, but job typesetting or jobbing work.

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The Type Area


The type area is the result of width and height of the typesetting. It must be set so that the front (recto) and side (verso) of a page are congruent. 

Page number


The page number is also called folio or pagination, and was aso called column title in the past. The term "column" stands for a narrow text body, and the column... 

Footnotes


Footnotes contain explanations or notes about the text. They are usually at the end of a page, but they DO belong to the type area. 

Marginal Notes


The term "marginalia" or "marginal notes" is derived from the latin word "margo", which means "margin" or "boundary". Marginal notes are side notes that are pla... 

Aides


Information will be added shortly. 

Highlighting


I already went into detail about the different ways of highlighting in chapter 4 under "highlighting". Here, I would like to talk about the options for highligh... 

Front matter


Similar to a movie's opening credits, the front matter is the introduction to a book. It should provoke eagerness and intrigue. It's used to "seduce" the reader...