"after the jump"

[Ann Burlingham]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> there's an old newspaper usage in which "cont. on p. N" was referred to as the jump. often these continuations were assembled on a single page, which was then known as "the jump page".
>
> arnold, who edited jump pages for a while

I used to do newspaper layout, and that's the term I'm familiar with.

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