Slug (typesetting)
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Slug (typesetting)
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In typesetting, a slug is any of several kinds of piece of lead or other type metal. One kind of slug is a piece of spacing material used to space paragraphs. In the era of commercial typesetting in metal type, they were usually manufactured in strips of 6-point lead. Another kind of slug is a single sort, bearing a single letter or any other symbol. More recently, a slug can be an entire line of Linotype typeset matter, where a single piece of lead has been cast bearing a line of text. In moder
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(typesetting)
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2024-03-20T16:56:54Z
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