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Glossary P

Punctuation:

The use of regular marks in written communication to explain the meaning or intention of a message. There are few examples of punctuation marks include the comma, time, question mark, and quotation marks.

Punctuation space, punctuation width:

A permanent space whose width is equivalent to that of the punctuation space engaged by the period or comma.

Pen Form:

Pen form is an alphabet based on the lines made by a wide-nibbed pen. For example, ITC Zapf Chancery.

Pitch:

Pitch is the size designation of monospaced fonts. It is based on line printer and type writer technology. This process is also refers to the dimension of the number of characters to an inch.

Prelims:

The Initial (opening) pages of a file before the content proper.