Dear Jane,
'Catchword' is the correct term.
Margaret.
At 09:05 AM 3/21/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>I shall be most grateful if someone can remind me of the technical term
>for the syllable printed at the foot of one page which [pre-]repeats the
>first at the top of the next page - my memory has let me down with a bump
>...
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>Many thanks
>
>Jane
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