What do you call the infoboxes with text and sometimes images on the side of a page we find in textbooks?
Is there a generic word for it. I would call them infoboxes, but it's not a word, so I am assuming there's a word for it that I am not aware of.
For example:
The infobox on the side of the page read "Fig 5.13. Men tend to have
bigger feet than women".
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Is there a generic word for it. I would call them infoboxes, but it's not a word, so I am assuming there's a word for it that I am not aware of.
For example:
The infobox on the side of the page read "Fig 5.13. Men tend to have
bigger feet than women".
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The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
yesterday
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In some contexts, "callouts" (or call-outs). it's a bit if an advertising term.
– Fattie
21 hours ago
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Is there a generic word for it. I would call them infoboxes, but it's not a word, so I am assuming there's a word for it that I am not aware of.
For example:
The infobox on the side of the page read "Fig 5.13. Men tend to have
bigger feet than women".
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Is there a generic word for it. I would call them infoboxes, but it's not a word, so I am assuming there's a word for it that I am not aware of.
For example:
The infobox on the side of the page read "Fig 5.13. Men tend to have
bigger feet than women".
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The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
yesterday
1
In some contexts, "callouts" (or call-outs). it's a bit if an advertising term.
– Fattie
21 hours ago
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The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
yesterday
1
In some contexts, "callouts" (or call-outs). it's a bit if an advertising term.
– Fattie
21 hours ago
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The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
yesterday
The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
yesterday
1
1
In some contexts, "callouts" (or call-outs). it's a bit if an advertising term.
– Fattie
21 hours ago
In some contexts, "callouts" (or call-outs). it's a bit if an advertising term.
– Fattie
21 hours ago
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In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
answered 23 hours ago
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I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
23 hours ago
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I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
23 hours ago
@Don B: it's attested in the ngrams English corpus in the late 80s, albeit in tiny numbers. So, probably not.
– SamBC
13 hours ago
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The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
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In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
answered 23 hours ago
JasperJasper
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I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
23 hours ago
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
23 hours ago
@Don B: it's attested in the ngrams English corpus in the late 80s, albeit in tiny numbers. So, probably not.
– SamBC
13 hours ago
add a comment |
In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
answered 23 hours ago
JasperJasper
19.2k43771
1
I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
23 hours ago
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
23 hours ago
@Don B: it's attested in the ngrams English corpus in the late 80s, albeit in tiny numbers. So, probably not.
– SamBC
13 hours ago
add a comment |
In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
answered 23 hours ago
JasperJasper
19.2k43771
In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
answered 23 hours ago
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I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
23 hours ago
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
23 hours ago
@Don B: it's attested in the ngrams English corpus in the late 80s, albeit in tiny numbers. So, probably not.
– SamBC
13 hours ago
add a comment |
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I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
23 hours ago
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
23 hours ago
@Don B: it's attested in the ngrams English corpus in the late 80s, albeit in tiny numbers. So, probably not.
– SamBC
13 hours ago
1
1
I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
23 hours ago
I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
23 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
23 hours ago
2
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
23 hours ago
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
23 hours ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
23 hours ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
23 hours ago
@Don B: it's attested in the ngrams English corpus in the late 80s, albeit in tiny numbers. So, probably not.
– SamBC
13 hours ago
@Don B: it's attested in the ngrams English corpus in the late 80s, albeit in tiny numbers. So, probably not.
– SamBC
13 hours ago
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The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
answered 23 hours ago
SamBCSamBC
14.8k1958
add a comment |
The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
answered 23 hours ago
SamBCSamBC
14.8k1958
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The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
answered 23 hours ago
SamBCSamBC
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The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
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The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
yesterday
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In some contexts, "callouts" (or call-outs). it's a bit if an advertising term.
– Fattie
21 hours ago