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Originally Posted by Jim Chapman
Well I'm open to suggestions for what I should call it. But I can't call it 'margin' because I already use that word to describe the space above/below/left/right that is inserted by CSS directives.
'leading' is at least the term that properly describes this kind of space around text, albeit it's a slightly obscure piece of printer's jargon.
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For the curious, it's called leading because they used strips of lead to separate the lines of type.. (was a typesetter briefly, but used a phototypesetting machine)
Maybe "fixed margins"? Implying a fixed amount of space that surrounds the text regardless of the CSS directives?