INDEX

	Weight	Heaviness or blackness of letters. Numerically, the ratio of the widths of vertical strokes to the x-height.
	Widow	The last line of a paragraph that appears at the top of a page.
	Winding number	A method of determining whether a region is inside a curve, and thus should be inked when an outline-specified letterform is rasterized.
	Word processing	Preparation of text in document form. The term is now dated, suggesting text-only documents and impact printing, as opposed to typeset compound documents.
	WYSIWYG	Acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used to describe interactive editing or formatting in which a facsimile of the paper output is presented on the screen, coined by Doug Engelbart.

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Sources: Rubinststein, Richard. [1988] Digial Typography: An Introduction to Type and Composition for Computer System Design. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Blue Dot's typoGRAPHIC. The comp.fonts FAQ.

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