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FOLIOTAGE [3 records]

Record 1 2022-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forwarding, Folding, and Binding (Printing)
DEF

The numbering of the physical leaves ... in a book rather than the pages which are printed on both sides of the leaves.

OBS

Foliation was the forerunner of pagination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Façonnage, pliage et reliure (Imprimerie)
DEF

Action de numéroter un livre feuillet par feuillet.

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Layout (Graphic Arts)
  • Office Automation
  • Electronic Publishing
DEF

The numbering of a book with a number on each page.

OBS

In word processing, the automatic arrangement of a text according to a preset number of page layout parameters.

Key term(s)
  • paginating

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maquette et mise en page
  • Bureautique
  • Éditique
DEF

Numérotage des pages ou des feuillets d’une copie.

OBS

Le sens du terme «foliotage» ayant évolué avec le temps, il est aujourd’hui synonyme de «pagination».

OBS

En traitement de texte, mise en forme d’un document.

Spanish

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Record 3 1996-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Graphic Arts and Printing
DEF

The simultaneous numbering of all parts of a set of forms by printing on the top copy only and transferring the number to the other copies by means of a copying medium, usually carbon paper.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques
DEF

Numérotage d’un jeu de formules de façon à ce que le numéro imprimé sur la première feuille soit transmis sur les autres au moyen de papier carbone.

Spanish

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