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| | Facts about topic: (Text figures) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Text figures (sometimes referred to as old-style, hanging, non-lining, minuscule, or medieval figures, digits, or numerals) are a style of Arabic numeral (One of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0) s designed for visual harmony (The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords) with running text. |
 | | High-quality typesetting (additional info and facts about typesetting) prefers text figures in running text: they meld better with the lower case (and with small capitals (A character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters)), and their greater variety of shape facilitates reading. |
 | | Lining figures are, however, called for in the midst of upper-case type, and they sometimes are said to work better in tables and spreadsheet (A screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen) s. |
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