NUMERO QUESTION ANSWER

01 Which are the chevrons?

02 If we want to create a PDF file for web use, embed only a subset of the characters
which font embedding option should be used?
03 Which should have an en-dash? only c)  English – Chinese glossary
a) wordfinal
b) 52=3
c) EnglishChinese glossary
04 Which pages of a book have a folio? all the pages, excluding the front and back covers
05 Which is the odd one out? bitmap
outline-bitmap-scalable-vector
06 Which is the pilcrow?
¶
07 Which of these characters usually has a width ellipsis points
of exactly 1 em?
08 What is the difference between a preface and A preface is written by the author, a foreword by
a foreword? someone else.
09 Which page proportion is recommended for larger than 1: √2
books that contain wide illustrations, side
notes, or multiple columns?
(The first number refers to width.)
10 Which of the following is NOT used to small caps
separate paragraphs?
11 Which letter developed from a ligature? W
12 1 pc equals... 12 pt.
13 Which of the following is false regarding they are limited to 256 characters.
OpenType fonts?
14 What is the recommended point size for the 16–18 points
main text in beamer presentations?
15 Who introduced the acute accent mark to Jan Hus
mark length?
16 What is the recommended method of adding adding stretchable/shrinkable vertical space
extra leading around section titles? bands
17 Which is an inherent property of the text in an italicization
average document?
18 Which is the most usual footnote reference
symbol? *
the asterisk 
19 One of the typefaces is not usually
recommended for setting longer texts, but is Bodoni  VOGUE
excellent for headings. Which one?
20 What is a crop mark? a mark on the stock for the printers to trim the
final page size
21 The typeface on the right is classified as...

Egyptian 
22 Checking the document for typesetting-related preflighting
errors before sending it to a printing shop is
called

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23 Which of the following contains a suspended a five- or six-year-old child
hyphen?
24 ...refers to the facility and comfort with which Readability
text can be comprehended.
25 Hinting refers to... programming instructions in digital fonts which
are added to the design code of the glyph to
reshape if necessary.
26 Which word contains an ogonek?
1) Galaţi 2) François 3) chrząszcz chrząszcz
27 What is French spacing? both of the above
1) larger space between sentences than
between words
2) a thin space before “!”, ”?”, “:”, “;”
3) both of the above
4) neither of the above
28 Which is the prime mark?
x′
29 Which point system is used by computer PostScript point
typographic software?
30 What is wrong with this sentence? the opening quotes
„He said she went to school in the ’80-‘90s.”
31 A book first published in 2004 is printed again a new impression.
in 2006 with typos corrected. This is...
32 Which e carries a trema?
ë
33 What is copyfitting? the optimal measure for a given font
34 Which number is longer, the ISBN or the ISSN? the ISBN
35 Which of the following typefaces can usually sans serif typefaces
benefit from looser letterspacing?
36 What does the paragraph on the right a hanging cap 
exemplify?

37 If there’s a choice, how should a footnote be So that it begins on a verso page and ends on a
broken across pages? recto page.
38 What is the difference between lining figures lining figures are uppercase numerals, old style
and old style figures? figures are numerals with ascenders and
descenders.
39 The OpenType tag ‘tnum’ switches on numbers with uniform width
40 One press sheet equals how many pages? 16
41 What is a hard space? a space which is not a breaking point
42 The font file extension ‘ttf’ refers to both TrueType and OpenType fonts
43 Which is the odd one out? heading
pagehead-header-heading-running head
44 in web typography, CSS files contain layout/style definitions
45 Which encircled dash should be a “hard” The English negative prefix is un.
hyphen?
1) World War II (19391945)
2) The prefix re is a word-level

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3) a FrenchCzech dictionary
4) The English negative prefix is
un.
46 What is wrong with the following definition of nothing
tracking?
“The measure of the overall spacing between
characters in a passage of text.
47 Why is it important to mark the header of a Because otherwise it will not be repeated if the
table? table is broken across pages.
48 Which of the following is never part of the marginal notes
textblock?
49 What does the colophon contain? facts about the physical production of the book
50 Which of the following contains a tilde?
Buñuel
51 What is lorem ipsum? Dummy text used as a placeholder.
52 What is Monotype? a type foundry
53 What is postscript? a page description programming language
(developed by Adobe)
54 Which book partition is the largest? part
55 Stock in typography refers to... the untrimmed paper material.
56 Which of the following statements about the Kerning pairs are included in the metrics of the
metric data of fonts is true? font.
57 Which e carries a caret?
ê
58 Which statement is false? Tables and bar charts usually provide data with
the same precision.
59 What is a block quote? a quotation which is at least a paragraph long
60 Which unit is used for vertical relative spacing? ex
1) ex 2) en 3) em 4) point
61 If a book is typeset in 10.5 pt Times with 12 pt 10½/12 x 26 Times
leading and 26 pc measure, (Q17-DSCF4034)
this information is usually abbreviated as...
62 Leading refers to... the baselineskip.
63 Which command must be the very last in the \end(document)
source of a document?
64 One glyph below does not have a hook.
Which one? r
65 What is typographically wrong in the following the title of the play should be in italics, not
example? Shakespeare’s name
“Her least favourite drama is Timon of Athena
by Shakespeare.”
66 Which of the following font type is the most monospaced, like Courier (?)
suitable for typesetting computer code?
monospaced, like Courier
proportional and serif, like Times
propositional and sans serif, like Helvetica
any proportional font, like Time or Helvetica
67 Which OpenType tag switches on raised case
punctuation marks (for titles with only capital
letters for example)?

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68 Which is the section mark?
§
69 Which of the following is the odd one out? condemned
regular-semibold-condemned-thin
70 Which is the asterisk?
*
71 Which of the following is not a satellite on a footnote
page?
footnote-marginal note-footer-header
72 What is a club line? the first line of a paragraph with a page/column
break right after it
73 The caron has more than one glyphs. Which is
not a caron? ś
74 Which of these is a CSS rule? h1{font-family: Verdana;color:#F00;}
1) \section{Introduction}
2) <h1>Title {Heading 1)</h1>
3) h1{font-family: Verdana;color:#F00;}
4) none of these
75 As display fonts, Bodoni type is usually used to elegance, feminity (i.e. they can be used for all
evoke a sense of... kinds of typographical purposes)
76 What does hanging indentation mean? The first line of the paragraph is unindented, the
rest are indented.
77 What is a _____g? (Q6-DSCF4036) an area outside the page that contains
nonprintable information for the printer
78 What is a dropped folio? a page number in the footer when it is normally
in the header
79 Which font file is necessary so that PostScript both the pfb and pfm files
Type 1 fonts can be used on Windows?
only th epfb file-only the pfm file-both the pfb
and pfm files-none of these files, other files
are needed
80 Which encircled dash should be a “hard” Send it in an email
hyphen? (?)
Natasha Richardson (19632009)
Send it in an email
73=4
The prefix e means ‘electronic’.
81 What is a soft (or discretionary) hyphen? A hyphen that is printed only if a line break falls
there.
82 Where is the half (or bastard) title in a book? on the first recto of the book
83 What is a glyph? the particular manifestation of a character
84 Which is the thorn?
þ
85 Which typeface is still used as the most Gill Sans
important corporate identity font in Britain?
86 In which case is it useful to loosen tracking? Loose tracking is when the letters have a larger
- in the case of a text set with scrip faces distance between them.
- when type is set against a patterned MAYBE:
background when type is set against a patterned background
- generally for texts set in serif fonts (see Van Gogh-photo in spacing handout, p. 71)

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87 Which encircled dash should be a “hard” the plural suffix en
hyphen?
88 If we need to submit a final camera-ready PDF embed the whole font
file for a print shop, which font embedding
option should be used?
89 Which contemporary digital revival should be Adobe Garamond
used when one wants to imitate Claude
Garamond’s original roman metal typeface?
90 Which of the following is untrue of the its core weights make it rather illegible
Helvetica typeface?
- it was originally designed by Max
Miedinger
- it is not recommended for typesetting
long texts
- it is suitable for chapter and section
titles
- its core weights make it rather illegible
91 What is lithography? a method of printing by spreading oil or fat on a
flat stone
92 Which of the following is typically abbreviations, acronyms, such as “pc”, “bc”, etc.
recommended to be typeset in small capitals?
93 What are vertical space bands? stretchable/shrinkable strips of extra leading
(See Question No. 16)
94 One of the following space factors is not line spacing
usually measured in ems. Which one?
95 Which word contains a character with a
cedilla? kuruş
96 Which are the braces?
{x}
97 Which is the odd one out? small cap
drop cap-hanging cap-small cap-raised cap
98 What type of fonts are the most suitable for fonts that were designed as bitmap and then
onscreen use? converted to outline
99 Gutenberg’s 42-Line Bible was set in the ... Gothic blackletter
face.
1) Celtic Round 2) Italian Renaissance
3) Gothic blackletter 4) Roman Script
100 The American Declaration of Independence Caslon
was printed in...
101 In plain TEX code groups are enclosed within... braces
parentheses-square brackets-braces-percent
signs
102 Which is not a character ligature?
W-1- þ-%
þ
103 Which of the following statements is false? An italic font may contain glyphs that are always
cursive.
104 Which typeface was among the bold styles? Clarendon
Bembo-Helvetica-Times New Roman-
Clarendon

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105 TrueType fonts were first developed by: Apple & Microsoft
Apple & Microsoft-Linotype-Adobe-Monotype (they developed against Adobe’s high-cost
licensing of Type 1 fonts)
106 In an European book, which page carries an the verso
even page number?
107 METAFONT is related to which typesetting TEX and LATEX
system?
108 In which case is negative leading handy? in the case of titles set in all capitals
- when the point size is very small
- in the case of a text with many diacritics
- when a text is typeset with many
descending glyphs
- in the case of titles set in all capitals
109 Which is true of “expert” font sets? word processors may have hyphenation
problems with them
110 What is wrong with this sentence? the direction of the apostrophe before the digits
He said “she went to school in the ‘80-
‘90s.”
111 Which of the following is part of the front copyright notice
matter in an English book?
112 What is the difference between a bibliography A reference list contains only documents
and a reference list? explicitly referred to.
113 Which person can be associated with the John Baskerville
Neoclassical typeface style?
114 Which is a slab serif type? Rockwell
115 Which should have an en-dash? only c.  Bill Clinton 19922000
a) a 2year-old dog
b) 12C
c) Bill Clinton 19922000
116 Which of the following font styles have Romantic/Didone type
hypermodulated strokes?
117 For large, complex documents with scientific non-WYSIWYG typesetting systems, like
text (maths formulas), it is recommended to TEX / LATEX.
use...
118 Which is a stylistic ligature?
ffi
119 Out of the following four, which is the heaviest fat
font weight?
black-book-demibold-fat
120 Which digital font format is drawn from an bitmap fonts
array of dots?
121 Which of the following glyphs has a vertex? V
V-Y-G-a
122 The term grotesque refers to... fonts without serifs.
123 Who is the author of the typesetting system Donald Knuth
TEX?
124 What is scriptio continua? text without interword spaces
125 If you had to design information signposts (i.e., HELVETICA
station names for the subway, direction signs,
etc.), which of the following typefaces is the

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126 Subsetting embedded fonts in PDF files is inhibiting full font extraction from PDF files.
useful for...
127 What is a drop cap? the first letter of a paragraph set in a larger size fitting
within the margins
128 ...refers to the reader’s ability to easily Legibility
recognize letterforms and the word forms built
form them.
129 Which of the following is most likely to contain a page where a chapter begins
a blind folio?
130 The ... is a space grid that is available for the em square
design work of glyphs in digital font design.
131 Seriffed letters were typical of... ancient Roman letters.
132 Which are the font parameters along which family, style, shape, weight, width, and size
typefaces vary?
133 Which string does not contain a stylistic Himfy
ligature?
134 Which diagramme represents the historical marginal note < footnote < endnote
development of note types?
135 What kind of ligatures existed before the character ligatures only
invention of the printing press?
136 Where should a publisher turn to for an ISBN the National Széchényi Library (OSZK)
or ISSN?
137 What is typographically wrong in the following The linguistic data is not italicized
example: “The word vér ‘blood’ contains a
voiced labiodentals approximant.”
138 Which statement is true? WYSIWYG technology does not encourage users to
specify document structure.
139 Which command must be the very first in the \documentclass
source of a LATEX document?
140 Which item exemplifies a serial (or Oxford, or apples, pears, and kiwis
Harvard) comma?
1) apples and pears, pins and needles
2) apples, pears and kiwis
3) apples, pears, and kiwis
4) none of the above
141 What is wrong with the following definition of nothing
tracking: “The measure of the overall spacing
between characters in a passage of text.”
142 Which number is the ISBN of a book published 963 9166 68 5
in Hungary?
143 Which word contains a tilde?
Assunção
144 Arial resembles which font the most? HELVETICA
145 Why are usually newspapers typographically large type size and narrow columns create colour
problematic? and readability problems
146 Which should have an em-dash? only Donaldthe duck
a) pages 2228
b) Donaldthe duck
c) the suffix ing

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147 Which paper size is common in the USA and letter size
Canada?
148 Which of the following statements is true? The first mention of technical terms can be set in
small caps
149 The caron has more than one glyphs. Which is
not a caron? ğ
150 In the font name Univers ‘Condensed’, width
‘Condensed’ refers to font
151 Which is typically not alphabetized? the contents
152 Anti-aliasing refers to… the addition of gray pixels at the edges of glyph
outlines to make them more legible at low
screen resolutions.
153 Which of the following is most unlikely to the appendix
contain a blind folio?
154 In Hungary, in the colophon the length of a A/5 PRESS SHEETS
book is given in...
155 Which word contains an ogonek?
Walęsa
156 Monospaced fonts ... have all their glyphs in a bounding box with the
same width.
157 Kerning refers to... the targeted adjustments of space between
specific glyph pairs.
158 What is the recommended setting of the small cap
abbreviation for the word “personal
computer”?
159 One of the following does not characterize the they contain automated ligature and kerning
TEX / LATEX typesetting system. Which one? algorithms (?) (Q27 - DSC4046)
160 The typeface on the right is classified as...
Romantic/Modern 
161 If the page proportion is 1: ϕ (golden ratio), it narrow pages
produsec
162 Which writing system is considered to be the Phoenician
basis of the Greek and Roman alphabets?
163 What is “font I.D. conflict”? When there are two or more fonts with the same
identity number on a computer system
164 Which of these sizes is optimal for setting text “display” size
for chapter titles in a regular document?
165 Seriffed letters were introduced by... the Romans.
166 Which of the following persons is credited Nicolas Jenson
with the first purely Renaissance Roman
typeface?
1) Nicolas Jenson
2) Giambattista Bodoni
3) Johannes Gutenberg
4) Robert Slimbach
167 Which is not a lowercase-uppercase pair?
1) ť~Ť ø~0
2) ð~Đ The capital is rounder!!
3) đ~Đ The capital letter is NOT a slashed zero!!
4) ø~0 “the slash of a slashed zero usually does not

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handwriting).” /Wikipedia/
 BUT the slash of the capital DOES extend!!
168 Which was the first punctuation mark in the interpunct
European writing?
169 In an European book, which page carries an the verso
EVEN page number?
170 Which of the following refers to solid leading? 12/10 pt
12/14.5 pt – 12/10 pt – 122/12 pt – 13/20 pt
171 ...fonts acquired the name ‘Egyptian’ due to Slab serif
England’s preoccupation with the
archaeological discoveries taking place
simultaneously in Egypt.
Serif-Sans Serif-Slab Serif-Woodtype
172 If you had to typeset a book on neoclassical Baskerville
architecture (like the “federal” style of the
USA), which of the following typefaces would
you employ in order to be the most
historically “faithful” to this art period?

Garamond-Caslon-Baskerville-Centaur
173 What is font metrics? data about the glyphs in a digital font (e.g.,
1) the optimal size of a font for a given width, kerning, position of the baseline,
measure ascender, x-height etc.) the collective tern for
2) data about the glyphs in a digital font typographical
(e.g., width, kerning, position of the
baseline, ascender, x-height etc.)
3) the collective tern for typographical
units
4) the collective name of the four
traditional point size series (caption,
text, subhead, display)
174 What is a widow line? the last line of a paragraph with a page/column
break right before it
175 One of the attributes below does not belong style
to the secondary font features. Which one?
style-size-shape-width
176 What is an expert set font? A companion font set that contains special
ligatures, true small caps, old style digits, etc.
177 Which of the following is true of the ISO “A” Each folding produces the same proportion.
series of paper size?

178 Which of the following is false concerning 2) It is an invention attributed to Nicolas Jenson.
movable type?
1) Gutenberg’s 42-Line Bible was printed
with it.
2) It is an invention attributed to Nicolas
Jenson.
3) Each character is cast in lead so that it
can be used multiple times.
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179 When several master designs are created for a optical sizes
typeface at various point sizes, they are also
called...
relative sizes-optical sizes-absolute sizes-
optimal sizes
180 Which is not a character ligature? Q
ß–æ-&-Q
181 Which is a false statement? A suffix normally inherits the font style of its
1) Parentheses inherit the style of the stem in English typography.
text they enclose.
2) Punctuation marks after a word in
italic are also italic.
3) A suffix normally inherits the font style
of its stem in English typography.
4) The plus sign (+) is not normally
italicized within an italic text.
182 Which typeface style has been very popular in 3) “Modern” types, such as Computer Modern
mathematical typesetting? and Bodoni
1) Renaissance types, like Garamond
2) “geometrical” types, like Futura
3) “Modern” types, such as Computer
Modern and Bodoni
4) Mannerist types, like the typefaces of
Robert Granjon
183 A(n) ... is an exaggerated gap in the shape of a ink well
letter that is created with the assumption that
the gap will plig with ink.
ink well-descender-slab serif-ascender
184 Which is the right weight sequence? thin < light < regular < demibold < heavy < black
185 Which of the following is considered to mark pictograph
the beginning of a written language?
phonogram-ideograph-syllabry-pictograph
186 When a digital font is not linked to any device independent
particular type of printer or computer
operating system, it i said to be...
1) a raster image processor
2) bitmap
3) device independent
4) pixel independent
187 How many styles has a basic but full font
family got? 4
1-2-3-4
188 Which of these measures usually affects the the x height
“subjective” size of a font?
the baselineskip – the set width – the
bounding box – the x height
189 In which case is hanging indentation least footnotes
usual?
footnotes – reference lists – first paragraph of
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190 Which of the following is the most suitable for Verdana
beamer presentations?
TNR-Futura-Didot-type fonts-Verdana
191 The original Palatino was designed by... Hermann Zapf
192 Which typographic style was the first to Mannerism
introduce a heavy application of stylistic
ligatures?
193 How can we identify fake small caps (from true have narrower vertical strokes
small caps)? Fake small caps...
194 Realist letterforms... usually have oblique italics.
195 The stretch and shrink maximum, a limit set by tolerance
typesetting programs within which word
spacing looks OK, is called...
196 Text colour depends on all of the above
1) the design of the typeface
2) vertical spacing (leading)
3) horizontal spacing (letter and word
spacing)
4) all of the above
197 What is considered to be the optimal number 60-70
of characters in a line in a single column (the ideal number is 66)
textblock?
1) 20-30
2) 40-50
3) 60-70
4) 90-100
198 Which is the odd one out? caret
dieresis-trema-umlaut-caret (the other 3 marks the SAME glyph: Ä)
199 What is the difference between B5 and B/5? B/5 refers to trimmed stock size, B5 is a standard
1) B5 refers to trimmed stock size, B/5 is block size
a standard stock size
2) B5 refers to trimmed stock size, B/5 is
a standard textblock size
3) B/5 refers to trimmed stock size, B5 is
a standard block size
4) nothing, they are just notational
variants
200 Which of the following styles fits “humanities” Renaissance
texts (e.g., on literature, history) the most?
Bodoni type – Renaissance – Futura-type –
capital quadrata
201 Which accent is not commonly used?
ĕ
ê - ē/ë - ě - ĕ
202 What type of file is the output of the text DVI or PDF
formatter TEX?
1) DVI of PDF
2) only PDF
3) only Postscript
4) Rich Text Format

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203 If the colophon if a book says “main text in the main text is typeset in 10 pt Times with 11.5
10/11.5 x 26 Times”, it informs us that pt leading and 26 pc measure
1) the main text is typeset in 26 pt Times with
11.5 pt leading and 10 pc measure
2) the main text is typeset in 11.5 pt Times
with 10 pt leading and 26 pc measure
3) the main text is typeset in 10 pt Times with
11.5 pt leading and 26 pc measure
4) the main text is typeset in 26 pc Times
with 10 pt leading and 11.5 pt measure
204 What is a bleed mark? a mark for printable objects that extend past
1) a mark for printable objects that extend the page boundary
past the page boundary
2) a mark on the stock for the printers to trim
to the final page size
3) a mark that shows the size of the textblock
on the page
4) an area outside the page that contains
nonprintable information for the printer
205 Which of the following does not characterize they are strictly platform dependent
PDF files?
206 Who is the author of the typesetting system Donald Knuth
TEX?
207 Which is an inherent property of the text in an character ligatures
average document?
the size of the textblock – stylistic ligatures –
character ligatures – the leading between the
lines
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Handout: What is the relationship between kerning and 1) “hamburgefonts” is an invented word used
Spacing the word Hamburgefonts? by type designers to preview typeface designs
HW because it contains every major shape and
stroke needed to create an entire alphabet.
 this test word contains most of the various
shapes and strokes found in a typeface
2) in order to include all characters with acute,
double acute, and umlaut used in Hungarian
the word ’árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép’ is used as a
preview
Lorem 1) What is Lorem Ipsum? 1) the standard dummy text of the printing
Ipsum in 2) Where does it come from? and typesetting industry since the 1500s
a nutshell 3) Why do we use it? 2) It comes from a work of Cicero written in
45 BC  Lorem Ipsum comes from
(source: lipsum.com) sections 1.1.32 and 1.10.33
3) When the reader looks at the layout,
s/he will be distracted by the readable
content  Lorem Ipsum has a more-or-
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reader can focus on the layout and not
the actual content
test2.pdf
208 Which of the following is not true of the PDF it is not based on the postscript page description
file format? language
209 The term revival in typography refers to... the recutting/redrawing of historical types in
metal of digital form
210 Which digital font format requires two files for Type 1
the same font?
211 Which of the following OpenType tags should lining tabular
be switched on for typesetting page numbers
in contents lists?
212 Which of the following fonts is the modern DTL Elzevir
digital revival of Christoffel van Dijck’s types?
213 Tracking refers to... the generalized adjustment of spacing between
all the glyphs in a range of text

214 Submitting embedded fonts in PDF files when inhibiting full font extraction from PDF files
the percent of characters used is less than 100
per cent is useful for...
215 Which is not an OpenType layout tag? all bold

216 Which of the following character combinations V+A

do not usually require positive kerning?

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