Meaning & use
Quadding
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In typesetting, the practice of inserting blank spacing material, called quads, to align or justify a line of text.
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The old hot-metal printer explained the process of quadding a line to the left.
Early word processors used a quadding command to center text automatically.
A note on using this word
A specialized term from traditional printing that survives in the names of some text-alignment commands in early computing and typesetting software.
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