If the text is solid, this odd length of line is easily justified to the measure; but in case leads are used and even-pica leads do not fit it may be necessary to cut a few special odd-length leads to fit the lines.
Pica has been a standard type in many countries for a long time, though it has not always been uniform in size.
The old namespica and nonpareil (half pica, or 6-point) still survive as convenient terms to use in naming these sizes.
First, however, after the top line has been justified, put a few leads of even picas in the stick and try a short lead or two up and down beside the initial to fill in to the even-pica leads.
For a few pages, like a circular or a program, an ordinary pica measure may be used, the length being defined as a given number of picas or lines.
All type founders made pica types, but all picas were not the same size in this country until after the adoption of the point system in 1887.
All the material mentioned under this head is commonly used in lengths graduated by the pica (12-point) and is for the most part in labor-saving fonts or assortments.
Pica gages are scales marked off in units of 12-point (and half, or 6-point).
Many learned men asserted the possibility of the transmutation of metals; among others, the famous Pica of Mirandola.
Pica di Mirandola died at thirty-two; Johannes Secundus at twenty-five; having at the age of fifteen composed admirable Greek and Latin verses, and become profoundly versed in jurisprudence and letters.
Pietro entreated and threatened, Pica wept and caressed, but all in vain.
At last, after some time, Pietro being absent for several days on business, Pica unlocked the dungeon and let her son go free.
For my part, except where books smaller than an ordinary octavo are wanted, I would fight against anything smaller than pica; but at any rate small pica seems to me the smallest type that should be used in the body of any book.
The third type used at the Kelmscott Press, called the 'Chaucer,' differs from the Troy type only in size, being Pica instead of Great Primer.
Last year the Pabellon de Pica was reported to contain eight million tons of guano.
Years ago the Pabellon de Pica was resorted to for its guano by a people, whoever they were, who had some fear of God before their eyes.
If the Pabellon de Pica may be compared to a pig-stye, the British sailors who frequent its strand may be likened unto swine.
The Pabellon de Pica is in form like a pavilion, or tent, or better still, a sugar-loaf rising a little more than 1000 feet above the sea which washes its base.
To which Pica rejoined, likewise talking out of Spenser, that Proteus would provide a nice ancient nymph to tend on them.
I acquit Metelill and Isa of all but thoughtless habit, and Pica was absorbed.
Pica would absorb herself in languages and antiquities, and maintain the rights of women by insisting on having full time to study her protoplasms, snubbing and deriding all the officers who did not talk like Oxford dons.
No; she moves on to the next shady place, but there Pica has a perfect fortification of books spread on her rug, and Charley is sketching on the outskirts, and the fox-terrier barks loudly.
When it all came to light, Pica came out and Isa was sent to school, but Avice had got into a low state of health, and they said Oxford was not good for her, so she came to us.
Pica then put in her oar, and began to argue that honour must be earned, and that it was absurd and illogical to claim it for the mere accident of seniority or relationship.
Pica and Avice were not among them, having joined the Druces in going to Hollyford, where Horace preached this morning.
It is because she and Pica spent all they had in paying for that Maude Harris at the Convalescent Home.
Pica and Charley are another pair, and Isa and Metelill--though Metelill is the universal favourite, and there is always competition for her.
For it seemsPica has a room to herself, and will not give it up or take in any one.
But India, as defined in the Income Tax Act, extends neither to Kashmir nor to Baluchistan, hence Pica rustica may decline to be considered an Indian subject.
With the types of Double-pica body he printed on one side of the paper, obviously made to be pasted on a wall, a broad-side, now known as the Calendar of 1457.
Pica vagabunda, are the birds of the jheels or rather the dry spots in them.
Of birds Pica vagans, Haematornis, and several Sylviae were observed.
Thirty-three small-pica lines of telegraphic news in a daily journal in a King's Capital of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants is surely not an overdose.
The reading-matter is compressed into two hundred and five small-pica lines, and is lighted up with eight pica headlines.
PICA is universally considered as the standard type, just as the foot is the standard of measurement.
The twelfth part of a pica is the unit, called a point, by which type bodies are measured.
Ornithologists now generally compromise the case by considering our bird to be subspecifically distinct, under the name of Picapica hudsonica.
This is the next larger size type than the pica and, on account of it being larger, it gives better manifolding results.
The picador dives the pica into the beast and it vents its pain on the horse.
One toro refused to fight, and when stuck with a sharp pica he jumped over the fence and was with the audience.
The double pica italic used in this was a grand letter.
In this the Saxon type cast for the Saxon Homily in 1567 was again used in conjunction with the magnificent founts of double pica Roman and Italic.
The type, double pica Roman and Italic, was beautifully cut, and was that which is described in the above list as the 'largest in England.
In this the text was printed in the same type as the De Thou, but the dedication was in a fount of double pica Roman.
Was his the unknown hand that cut the double pica type which Baskett used in printing the 'Vinegar' Bible?
A large ffount of pica Letter very good, cast by ditto.
This first volume, a large and handsome folio, came from the press of Richard Hodgkinson, and was printed in pica Roman in double columns, with a great deal of italic and black letter intermixed.
Beowulf (the wolf of the bees) is spoken of in connection with the woodpecker as well as with the bear: the Bienenfresser of German legends, or the pica merops, explains the Latin superstition and the Beowulf.
It was based on the pica size most extensively in use in this country.
This pica was divided into twelve equal parts and each part called a point.
