The pastern Is a sheet of paper that, according to the general criterion, has the same dimensions as a letter-size sheet.
The term pastern Has its origin in the division of the sheet. A sheet of paper is divided into two sheets. The folio, in turn, is divided into two pages. The pastern Would then be a quarter of the sheet. Half of the sheet would then be the octavilla.
Example of A4 page format.
At present, two systems of paper measurement exist in the world. The Anglo-Saxon who maintains three measures: letter or Letter (215.9 x 279.4 mm), office or folio (215.9 x 330.2 mm), legal (215.9 x 355.6) and unofficial or tabloid (279.4 x 431.8 mm).
Like most measures of Anglo-Saxon origin, it is counted in inches, so it is not handled with exact numbers and has been gradually replaced by all kinds of units of the metric system. This system is widely used even in Latin American countries.
On the other hand, ISO 216 formats were formulated, based on DIN 476. This system was designed with the aim of optimizing the paper at the time of its production, so that what is strictly necessary is wasted.
Under these rules, a sheet of paper measures one square meter and therefore all its measurements will give round numbers. Through mathematical formulas you can get 11 sizes, from A0 to A10.
There is consensus to understand, based on the current popular measures of paper as a sheet to what in the Anglo-Saxon system would correspond to the measurements of a letter-sized sheet.
However, with regard to the ISO 216 system, there are divergences of thinking towards the identification of the page.
This is because it is not certain whether the historic concept of quilt refers more to sheets DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm) or DIN A5 (148 x 210 mm). This definition varies according to the application of the page in different subjects.
Examples of pages
1- Alejandro Alfie's article for the daily Clarín Resistance within government against proposed Odebrecht agreement Of May 24, 2017 has an extension of approximately two pages.
2-Javier Sánchez writes for El Mundo, Hacienda sees indications of crime in the case of Cristiano Ronaldo and believes he defrauded fifteen million euros in four years , On May 25, 2017, an article of a quarter and a half.
3-Amanda Mars, for The country , Wrote an article of a titled page Russian agents planned how to influence Trump using his advisers, according to 'The New York Times' Dated May 25, 2017.
4-Lisandro Rengifo published on the same date Nairo and Nibali, for the assault to the leadership of Tom Dumoulin in the Giro , In the diary Time . It is from a page.
5-The newspaper Trade Takes a notice of the BBC World Titled Alejandro Toledo: I am not a fugitive nor have I escaped from my country , With a review of less than one page.
6-The newspaper The nation Publishes a half-page article titled Bombing in Manchester: a Libyan family with terrorist ties.
7-The newspaper The Mercury Of Ecuador publishes an interview conducted by the EFE agency Capriles says Maduro did not travel to Ecuador to avoid"uncomfortable questions" Of half a sheet.
8-Angelica Lagos Camargo writes for The viewer An article titled The lessons that terrorism did learn Of three pages.
9-With an extension of only one page, Ricardo Pérez Vallejos for The nation From Chile review Venezuela: House arrest of journalist Braulio Jatar .
10-Cristian Barrera review for Third A note entitled Colo Colo urges you to sell , A sheet and a half.
11-Of two pages is the article written by Ana María Pinilla entitled Panama prepares a 2020 census 'orderly and truthful' for The Star of Panama.
12-Pablo Cuiza for the newspaper The reason Of Bolivia wrote a brief summary of a page titled Morales and Bachelet exchange greetings in the possession of Lenin Moreno .
13-A quarter and a half picks up the request of the newspaper The Century of Panama Written by Yazmín Trujillo and entitled CD Bases Call for 'Ear Throw' for Cumberbatch
14-The newspaper Duty Of Bolivia publishes a review of Berthy Vaca of half a page, titled The band that stole a loaded truck and everything .
15-In about half a page, the newspaper The universal Of Venezuela collects a statement in an article titled BCV sets new band Dicom between 1,800 and 2,000 bolivars .
16-In almost two pages, July Rojas was able to write news for the newspaper The Times Of Bolivia titled OAS to implement double biometric verification .
17-Diego Gonzales for the newspaper Page Seven Of Bolivia makes a review titled El Tigre to start eighth at home Of just under a page.
18-In a quarter and a half, the newspaper The National Of Venezuela picks up a news of the agency EFE titled OPEC agrees to extend its cutback policy for another nine months .
19-On a page, Daniel Ramirez for The Spanish Manages to synthesize the news The new Gran Vía: semi-pedestrian, for residents and with lanes of 30 km / h for bikes and cars .
20-In about a quarter, Ariel Chaves writes a review for News Of Costa Rica entitled Auction of Tico Paco Zúñiga in 1.800 colones .
Use of the term in journalism and writing
To understand the magnitude of the term pastern It is strictly necessary to understand that it is a concept that precedes the invention of computers and any type of electronic word processor.
The pages were born in the typewriters, from which an understanding was reached in its magnitude of the term that later adapted to the digital world.
One of the spaces where the use of pastern Has had more strength is in the world of writing. No matter the area or the career in which they perform, the writing on most occasions works on pages, because the assignments are made with this measure.
The professions in which the term is used pastern Are all those that require an intense work of writing. One of them could be the graduates in Letters, that when writing narrative or essay need to be measured in sheets.
Also, this social measure of role involves the professionals of the performing arts, who perform their plays in a certain number of pages.
However, one of the professions that has more weight in this regard is journalism. The significance of the pages in journalism is long standing.
Previously, there were diagrams in the journals that worked through typometers and non-digital tools. They determined the space that would occupy any text and how many pages it occupies.
In this sense, for many journalists the page was constituted as a synonym of page. In spite of this, the conceptualization of a page was totally diffuse.
For this reason, traditionally the figure of the measurement by lines has been instituted. That is, a certain number of lines are those that give the true meaning to the page.
But also, the number of lines that define the page vary. In typewriters, the numbers of lines on a letter-sized sheet could vary. However, a page was usually a page that had between 25 and 27 lines typed.
As typewriters fell into disuse, the concept of blackboard was forced to adapt to computers. Now the variety in font and sizes was supreme in basic programs like Microsoft Word. That is why it was necessary to establish a consensus.
With respect to that, two fonts that are widely used and accepted as professionals were quickly popularized.
These are the famous Arial Y Times New Roman . The page, therefore, in the world of writing, adopted some of these two types of letters to continue subsisting.
Despite this, size is still a problem, because the letters have different size: Arial Takes up more space than Times New Roman .
In writing, size 12 has been imposed as preferred, regardless of the type of font chosen. However, in more recent times the size 11 has broken in and has faced the 12 in its unanimous leadership.
From all this it is possible to conclude a current, modern and digital conception of the page in the world of the writing. In a computer, a page would be a page that has 25 to 27 lines, with letter Arial or Times New Roman , Size 12 and with a line spacing multiple or 1.5.
Use of the term cuartilla in typography
The reasons for using the term pastern In typography are similar to those of writing and journalism, although in typography its application is more precise and technical and less given to receive evolutionary changes that may vary its initial conceptualization.
Typography, which is responsible for working everything related to the printing of all types of materials, especially focusing on letters and writing on paper, has institutionalized the term cuartilla in its work area.
As newspapers have to be diagramed, it is evident the relationship that typography with journalism had at the time for the coinage of the term pastern .
But in the world of typography, the definition of the page is more defined. Typographers are not handled by lines.
Instead, they do it by means of lines, which allows their study directly for the printing area. This arises when typewriters dominate the international writing scene.
Thus, among typographers, it is common to understand a page as a unit with 26 lines. However, for the lines to be uniform to be able to specify the print job, it is not enough to write in only one line.
A line on a page must have 65 typing strokes, now known as characters.
Taking these data into account, it is easy to know how many words a page has, at least in the typographic field. Having 65 characters in each line, and with 26 lines in total, the words in Spanish language would oscillate between 200 and 250, number that can vary perfectly according to the content that is written.
However, with the advent of digital printing, the typography technologies that existed when typewriters were in full swing have become out of use.
The use of the page has not fallen into disuse, but it has seen a decrease in its frequency in use, because the computerized design does not make extensive calculations of how many characters are to be occupied in a line.
Although the calculation of a page is not strict in order to be able to diagram or design some type of form, the notion of the relation between page and page remains immanent in the field of typography, reason why its use can generate an interesting method of Work, especially between the typographer and a person outside his technique but who writes texts.