![]() ![]() The terms are shortened from Latin: rēctō foliō and versō foliō (which translate as "on the right side of the leaf" and "on the back side of the leaf"). Sometimes single-sided or blank leaves are used for numbering or counting and abbreviated "l." instead of "p." for the number of pages. Loose leaf paper consists of unbound leaves. A sheet folded in this manner is known as a folio, a word also used for a book or pamphlet made with this technique. ![]() The number of pages in a book using this binding technique must thus be a multiple of four, and the number of leaves must be a multiple of two, but unused pages are typically left unnumbered and uncounted. Pages 1 and 16, for example, are printed on the same side of the physical sheet of paper, combining recto and verso sides of different leaves. For example, the outer sheet in a 16-page book will have one leaf with pages 1 (recto) and 2 (verso), and another leaf with pages 15 (recto) and 16 (verso). In modern books, the physical sheets of paper are stacked and folded in half, producing two leaves and four pages for each sheet. In double-sided printing, each leaf has two pages - front and back. Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper ( folium) in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet. In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following page in a book and hence comes next to the verso of the previous page. Right-to-left language books: recto is the front page, verso is the back page ( vertical Chinese, vertical Japanese, Arabic, or Hebrew). ![]()
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