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typesetting

[ tahyp-set-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the process or action of setting set an article, book, or other printed matter into type.

First recorded in 1855–60; type + setting

Suddenly you can hold forth about leading and kerning and other esoteric aspects of typesetting.

Like the telegraph as intended by Morse, there was the interposition of typesetting before a message could be sent.

He knew something of the delays of completing a typesetting machine, and he had little faith in any near relief from that source.

With much the same feeling the old-time hand compositors looked upon the coming of the typesetting machine.

It's a cleaner trade than typesetting and fussing round a small-town print shop.

Linotypes to spoil typesetting by hand, and now horseless carriages to stop driving horses!

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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