{"id":495,"date":"2008-05-14T22:40:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=495"},"modified":"2008-09-08T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:59:33","slug":"we-could-save-the-term-by-using-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/tools\/we-could-save-the-term-by-using-it","title":{"rendered":"We could save the term by using it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lively discussion about the terminology used in Scribus:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.scribus.info\/pipermail\/scribus\/2008-May\/028994.html\">http:\/\/lists.scribus.info\/pipermail\/scribus\/2008-May\/028994.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All started with this post from Hans-Josef Heck, linking the language of digital lay-out to that of historical printing techniques:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Master&#8221; is the perfect English term. The master masters a page, a paragraph, etc. <\/p>\n<p>The Webster (edition 1994) says:<br \/>\n3: controlling the operation of other mechanism (e.g. master cylinder)<br \/>\n4: establishing a standard for reference (e.g. master gauge).<\/p>\n<p>To use &#8220;page master&#8221; instead of &#8220;master page&#8221; stresses, what the  function<br \/>\nis, namely &#8220;mastering&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;master&#8221; means &#8220;ruling&#8221;. There is no equivalent in German, I think, which could we used here. In German &#8220;Mutter&#8221; (mother) is a possible solution, which means &#8220;stems from&#8221; (e.g. Mutterbaum, Mutterpflanze). In the printing trade there are in the German nomenclature two terms, that stem from Latin &#8220;mater&#8221;, (Mutter, mother):<\/p>\n<p>1. Mater = a mould for a founding patterns for printing. It was positive, as the printing block had to be negative.<br \/>\n2. Matrize = a stencil, positive, the ink was pressed through or those, where the printing colour was imposed on the back and then used with a kind of alcohol for copying.<\/p>\n<p>These techniques are gone. Laser copies or digital (offset) printing we use instead. But we could save the term by using it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lively discussion about the terminology used in Scribus: http:\/\/lists.scribus.info\/pipermail\/scribus\/2008-May\/028994.html All started with this post from Hans-Josef Heck, linking the language of digital lay-out to that of historical printing techniques: &#8220;Master&#8221; is the perfect English term. The master masters a page, a paragraph, etc. The Webster (edition 1994) says: 3: controlling the operation of other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[2,110,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}