pagination

1. The system by which pages are numbered.
2. The arrangement and number of pages in a book, as noted in a catalog or bibliography.

(1) Page numbering.

(2) Laying out printed pages, which includes page numbers, margins, tabs, headers, footers and columns. The term generally refers to printing books and long manuscripts rather than ads and brochures with only a few pages. See paginated and page layout program.

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computerized composition and word processor function that automatically breaks text into pages for printing. Page breaks may be inserted at the end of a fixed number of lines or at variable points, dependent upon the content of the text.

Process of dividing a document into pages. Many computer word processors offer a ‘paginate' command that shows you where page breaks will occur in the printed text.

For other uses, see Pagination (disambiguation).

Pagination is the system by which the information on a newspaper, bookpage, manuscript, or otherwise handwritten, printed or displayed document is laid out.

In a strict sense of the word, it can mean the consecutive numbering to indicate the proper order of the pages, which was rarely found in documents pre-dating 1500, and only became common practice circa 1550, when it replaced foliation, which numbered only the front sides of folios.

Pagination can also refer to the process of organizing information on web pages. For instance, threads on a bulletin board might be paginated such that 50 appear on each page.

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