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Desktop publishing (DTP)
Using computers to lay out text and graphics for printing in magazines, newsletters, brochures and so on. A good DTP system provides precise control over templates, styles, fonts, sizes, color, paragraph formatting, images and fitting text into irregular shapes.

Diacritic
A mark or sign placed under, over or through a Latin script character that indicates a modification in the phonetic value of the character with which it is associated.

Diphthong
A complex speech sound or glide that begins with one vowel sound and gradually changes to another within the same syllable, such as coin, loud and side.

Dongle
A security or copy protection device for commercial computer programs. Programs can use a dongle query at the start of a program to determine if the registration is valid and to terminate if the correct code is not present.

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