Even lines.—When a piece of printing has to be executed in great haste, a number of compositors are employed on it, and the copy is cut into small pieces for each, to facilitate the making-up, imposing, and the general furthering of the work; if the copy should be in long paragraphs, the compositors have each to begin a line and to make their copy end a line, frequently with great irregularity of spacing. This is termed making even. In newspapers it is of constant occurrence.
Fat.—Poetry and leaded matter.
Folio.—The figure or figures which stand at the head of the page; also a sheet of paper once doubled.
Forme.—The pages when imposed in a chase.
Foul proof.—A proof with many faults marked in it.
Fount.—An assortment of type in definite proportions.
Furniture.—Strips of wood or metal, placed around and between pages when imposed.
Gauge.—A strip of reglet with a notch in it, passed with the making up, to denote the length of the pages.
Get in.—To set close.
Gutter-sticks.—Furniture used in imposition to separate the pages.