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- nonstandarduncountableThe process of giving a layout to something.
It is agreed that the process of layouting demands both editorial and technical decisions; it is therefore not possible to draw a rigid line of demarcation.
1978, Journal of the International Graphical Federation, numbers 62-65, page 72 more examples
At that time, the paper was still being printed in Manila, where he personally did the layouting, proofreading and transporting the copies to Lucena. It was a taxing job.
1993, Crispin C. Maslog, The rise and fall of Philippine community newspapers, page 86As explained above, we consider a filmic document structure to consist of a collection of organised content that is rendered appropriately via a layouting process for display in some output medium.
2013, John Bateman, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt, Multimodal Film Analysis: How Films Mean, page 197
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of layout
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