Talk:Quarto (disambiguation)

Quarto (Latin and Italian for "fourth") could refer to:

As clarified by WP:MoSDab, the wording about the meaning of "quarto" in Italian, which i removed from near the start of the accompanying Dab page, simply has no valid place on this (or probably any) Dab page.
--Jerzy•t 05:45, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
On the other hand,

... in which four leaves of a book are created from a printer's standard size sheet of paper...

may also be useful in the article Quarto or others concerned with the printing, publishing, or collecting of books.
--Jerzy•t 05:55, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Along those lines i settled, in detail, on

A quarto is a book whose production entails printing 4 (generally non-consecutive) pages per impression.

Those terse wordings are less likely to be useful in an article, especially since i avoided mentioning the usual quarto situation (where another 4 pages almost always get printed in the second impression on the same, of course two-sided, sheet. My opinion is that on the Dab page, the user is helped by at least quieting any anxiety about why the "four"-connoting word "quarto" is getting invoked there -- tho presumably it's productive for them to wait until they dive into info on their particular quarto-constructed book before facing e.g. two- vs. one-impression-per-sheet-printing (let alone two- to four-color printing).
--Jerzy•t 03:53, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]