layouting

English

Etymology

layout +‎ -ing

Noun

layouting (uncountable)

1. (nonstandard) The process of giving a layout to something.
   • 1978, Journal of the International Graphical Federation (issues 62-65, page 7)

     It is agreed that the process of layouting demands both editorial and technical decisions; it is therefore not possible to draw a rigid line of demarcation.

   • 1993, Crispin C. Maslog, The rise and fall of Philippine community newspapers (page 86)

     At that time, the paper was still being printed in Manila, where he personally did the layouting, proofreading and transporting the copies to Lucena. It was a taxing job.

   • 2013, John Bateman, ‎Karl-Heinrich Schmidt, Multimodal Film Analysis: How Films Mean (page 197)

     As explained above, we consider a filmic document structure to consist of a collection of organised content that is rendered appropriately via a layouting process for display in some output medium.

Anagrams

• laying out, outlaying