layouting

English

Etymology

From layout +‎ -ing.

Noun

layouting (uncountable)

1. (nonstandard) The process of giving a layout to something.
   • 1978, Journal of the International Graphical Federation, numbers 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