In
publishing
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...
, a callout or call-out is a short string of text connected by a line, arrow, or similar graphic to a feature of an illustration or technical drawing, and giving information about that feature. The term is also used to describe a short piece of text set in larger type than the rest of the page and intended to attract attention.
In documents that need to be translated often a neutral callout is used. By using numbers or letters as callout in combination with an image caption, translation is more efficient since the same graphic can be used in all languages.
A similar device in
word processing A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.
Word processor (electronic device), Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicate ...
is a special text box with or without a small "tail" that can be pointed to different locations on a document.
In the
utility industry, a callout is an instruction to report for emergency or special work at an unusual time or place.
Gallery
File:SARJ with callouts.jpg, The callouts in this illustration give information about a solar array rotary joint of the International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...
.
File:Callout neo office.png , Description callout panel in NeoOffice Writer's draw toolbar.
File:Drycell-vectorised.svg , Callout using numbers for efficient translation.
File:Maurerhammergipserbeil2.JPG , Callout using letters for distinction.
Arts
In
music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
, call-out
hooks are small portions of a song, usually seven to ten seconds of a song's hook used by radio stations "in market research to assist in gauging the popularity of a song by the recognizability of its hook".
See also
*
Call-out culture
*
Pull-quote
*
Speech balloon
Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing a charac ...
References
External links
*
Illustration
{{Publishing-stub