Page (paper)

One side (or both sides) of material used in documents or illustrative works

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Pages in a book

A page is one side of a leaf (a sheet or half-sheet) of paper, parchment or other material (or electronic media) in a book, magazine, newspaper, or other collection of sheets, on which text or illustrations can be printed, written or drawn, to create documents. It can be used as a measure of communicating general quantity of information ("That topic covers twelve pages") or more specific quantity ("there are 535 words in a standard page in twelve point font type").[1]

## Etymology

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The word "page" comes from the Latin term pagina, which means, "a written page, leaf, sheet",[2] which in turn comes from an earlier meaning "to create a row of vines that form a rectangle".[3] The Latin word pagina derives from the verb pangere, which means to stake out boundaries when planting vineyards.[3]

## The page in English lexicon

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Look up page in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Compound words:

* Blank page: multiple meanings. "It's a blank page": An opportunity to start over a do something anew or for the first time. "They are a blank page": denotes either a person hard to read or easily swayed/vapid.
* Page through: to skim something; to flip through something quickly.[4]
* Page-turner: A book that is exciting to read (literally: you are reading fast and keep turning pages to see what happens next).[5]

Idiomatic expressions:

* Front-page news: important news or information.
* On the same page: to be in agreement with someone (literally: reading from the same page).
* Take a page (or leaf) out of someone's book: to copy or mimic the behavior of someone.
* Turn the page: to move on from an event. To stop thinking about something or to move forward.

## The page in library science

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In library science, the number of pages in a book forms part of its physical description, coded in subfield $300a in MARC 21 and in subfield $215a in UNIMARC. This description consists of the number of pages (or a list of such numberings separated by commas, if the book contains separately-numbered sections), followed by the abbreviation "p." for "page(s)". The number of pages is written in the same style (Arabic or Roman numerals, uppercase or lowercase, etc.) as the numbering in each section. Unnumbered pages are not described.

For example,

XI, 2050 p.

describes a book with two sections, where section one contains 11 pages numbered using uppercase Roman numerals, and section two contains 2050 pages numbered using Arabic numerals; the total number of pages is thus 2061 pages, plus any unnumbered pages.

If the book contains too many separately-numbered sections, too many unnumbered pages, or only unnumbered pages, the librarian may choose to describe the book as just "1 v." (one volume) when doing original cataloguing.

## See also

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* Book design
* Page spread
* Recto and verso
* Image scaling
* Margin (typography)

## References

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1. ^ "How Many Words in One Page? Answers to your questions". 7 January 2020.
2. ^ "Pagina". Wiktionary. 12 August 2021.
3. ^ a b Emmanuel Souchier, "Histoires de pages et pages d'histoire", dans L'Aventure des écritures, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1999. ISBN 978-2-717-72072-3.
4. ^ "Page through Definition & Meaning". Merriam-Webster.
5. ^ "Page-turner Definition & Meaning". Merriam-Webster.

## External links

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* MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data: Table of Contents (Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress)
* IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme

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Typography

Page|

* Canons of page construction
* Column
* Even working
* Margin
* Page numbering
* Paper size
* Pagination
* Pull quote
* Recto and verso
* Intentionally blank page

Paragraph|

* Alignment
* Leading
* Line length
* River
* Runaround
* Widows and orphans
* runt

Character|

| Typeface anatomy|

* Counter
* Diacritics
* Dingbat
* Glyph
* Ink trap
* Ligature
* Rotation
* Subscript and superscript
* Swash
* Text figures
* Tittle

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Capitalization|

* All caps
* Camel case
* Initial
* Letter case
* Small caps
* Snake case
* Title case

Visual distinction|

* Blackboard bold
* Bold
* Color printing
* Italics
* Oblique
* Underline
* Whitespace

Horizontal aspects|

* Figure space
* Kerning
* Letter spacing
* Pitch
* Sentence spacing
* Thin space
* Word spacing

Vertical aspects|

* Ascender
* Baseline
* Body height
* Cap height
* Descender
* Mean line
* Overshoot
* x-height

Typeface
classifications|

| Roman type|

* Serif
* Antiqua
* Didone
* slab serif
* Sans-serif

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Blackletter type|

* Fraktur
* Rotunda
* Schwabacher

Gaelic type|

* Insular
* Uncial

Specialist|

* Record type
* Display typeface
* script
* fat face
* reverse-contrast

Punctuation (List)|

* Bullet
* Dash
* Hanging punctuation
* Hyphen
* minus sign
* Interpunct
* Space
* Vertical bar

Typesetting|

* Etaoin shrdlu
* Font
* computer
* monospaced
* Font catalog
* For position only
* Letterpress
* Lorem ipsum
* Microprinting
* Microtypography
* Movable type
* Pangram
* Phototypesetting
* Punchcutting
* Reversing type
* Sort
* Type color
* Type design
* Typeface
* list

Typographic units|

* Agate
* Cicero
* Em
* En
* Metric units
* Pica
* Point
* traditional point-size names
* Twip

Digital typography|

* Character encoding
* Hinting
* Text shaping
* Rasterization
* Typographic features
* Web typography
* Bézier curves
* Desktop publishing

Typography in other
writing systems|

* Arabic
* Cyrillic
* PT Fonts
* East Asian
* Thai
* National Fonts

Related articles|

* Penmanship
* Handwriting
* Handwriting script
* Calligraphy
* Style guide
* Type design
* Type foundry
* History of Western typography
* Intellectual property protection of typefaces
* Technical lettering
* Vox-ATypI classification

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* Punctuation and other typographic symbols

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Paper

* Paper engineering / Papermaking

History|

* Battle of Talas
* Missal of Silos

| Originators|

* Cai Lun
* Damjing

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Developers|

* Matthias Koops
* Friedrich Gottlob Keller
* Charles Fenerty

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Scholars|

* Timothy Barrett
* Thomas Francis Carter
* Dard Hunter
* Tsien Tsuen-hsuin

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Types|

* Acid-free
* Air-laid
* Amate
* Asphalt
* Banana
* Bible
* Blotting
* Bond
* Bristol
* Carbon
* Cardboard
* Cardstock
* Cartridge
* Coated
* Construction
* Contact
* Copy
* Carbonless
* Correction
* Cotton (rag)
* Crêpe
* Display
* Dó
* Electrical insulation
* Filteration
* Genkō yōshi
* Glassine
* Graph
* Greaseproof
* Hemp
* India
* Inkjet
* Ingres
* Korean
* Kraft
* Butcher
* Laid
* Lokta
* Manila
* Mummy
* Newsprint
* Onionskin
* Origami
* Paperboard
* Parchment
* Photographic
* Plastic-coated
* Red rosin
* Rice
* Rolling
* Scritta
* Security
* Seed
* Stone
* Tar
* Thermal
* Tissue
* Tracing
* Transfer
* Tree-free
* Wallpaper
* Washi
* Wasli
* Waterproof
* Wax
* Wood-free
* Wove
* Writing
* Xuan

Materials|

* China clay
* Corrugated fiberboard
* Fiber crop
* Paper chemicals
* Papyrus
* Wood pulp

Specifications|

* Density
* Grammage
* Paper sizes
* Surface chemistry of paper
* Units of paper quantity
* Wet strength

Manufacture
and process|

* Bleaching of wood pulp
* Calender
* Conical refiner
* Deinking
* Elemental chlorine free
* Environmental impact of paper
* Handmade paper
* Hollander beater
* Kraft process
* Organosolv
* Paper machine
* Paper recycling
* Papermaking
* Soda pulping
* Sulfite process

Industry|

* Paper industry
* Canada
* Europe
* India
* Indonesia
* Japan
* United States
* Paper mill
* List

Uses|

* Lined paper
* Paper towels
* Papier-mâché
* Cardboard
* Clothing
* Tissues
* Notebooks
* Watercolor paper
* Paper money
* Beverage cartons

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